Antique vintage Uzbek Women's Coat Paranji / purdah D-4A

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Antique vintage Uzbek Women's Coat Paranji Purdah D-4A. Check photos. There is Arabic writing on it. Which means that it is very old
Please, note that some chapans may have some spots, & Tears
Men’s
caftans (chapan) can be winter and summer. Winter chapans was sewed with slight cotton back. Neck, laps and arms’ hemlines were bound with wicker inkle. Men tied the chapan with belt. They wore cotton white shirt- kuilak under the chapan.
Female
robe was slightly fitted and had loose arms. In the second half of XIX century, women’s clothes were completed by jacket and sleeveless jacket – nimcha. Women put on quite spacious dress made of cotton, silk or semi silk textile under the robe. Women wore bloomers (sharovars) narrowing in lower part. The bottom of bloomers was bound by inkle – djiyak.
Since middle of XIX century, parandja became traditional women’s dress. It consisted of robe which covered a head and chachvan. Chachvan is a square reticulate canvas which disguised face. All women was obligated to wear parandja when they outside. In 20th of XX century soviet administration prohibited puradah / parandja.