In the VII–VIII centuries, the ideal of beauty for both sexes was rather narrow clothes, emphasizing the figure.Large items of clothing (shirts, dresses, trousers) usually had a basic background of red, white or yellow. The most expensive and fashionable multicolored silks with complex patterns or from several shades of the same color (imported and Sogdian) usually form a border around the edges; only rarely do sovereigns and families of the highest nobility have clothes entirely made up of them.
Hats were very diverse. For men, the most popular was felt, less often – a fabric high conical cap, often with a lapel and slits along the bottom edge. A specific Sogdian was also a special a headdress in several variants, apparently imitating a combat helmet, with a top in the form of a long tubular cone.
Both sexes wore a variety of hats with a high crown. The ruler of Samarkand had a hat with a lot of gold jewelry and precious stones; another variant of the ruler's headdress was a golden diadem with seven expensive stones. Noble ladies covered their hair with a black handkerchief embroidered with golden flowers or an openwork hairnet. Young women and girls wore four braids of different lengths; the hairstyle was often decorated with bows.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Sogdia: the heart of the silk road" (volume XXXV) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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