Clothing - Architecture

CLOTHING:

Persian miniature paintings employ both vivid and muted colors for clothing, although the colors of paint pigment often do not match the colors of dyes. Persian men and women usually wore a full-length pants called Shalvar.

Men also wear the Pirahan, Shalvar, and Jameh combination, often with a wide belt called Kamarband, from which English gets the word "cummerbund". As with the Pirahan Shalvar for women, there are a variety of cuts and lengths to these articles of clothing for men as well. Headdresses are also worn by men in traditional wear, known as the Sarband. Long robes and loin cloths were also worn by the women and men in Persia. They often used gold jewelry.

ARCHITECTURE:

Persian architecture is the architecture of contemporary Iran and the Iranian Cultural Continent. It has a continuous history from at least 5000 BCE to the present, with characteristic examples distributed over a vast area from Turkey and Iraq to Northern India and Tajikistan, and from the Caucasus to Zanzibar. Persian buildings vary from peasant huts to tea houses and garden, pavilions to "some of the most majestic structures the world has ever seen".