man in red ceremonial dress

Ars Orientalis 47

New Research on Dress across Asia

painting of two men wearing elaborate clothing and turbans hugging in front of golden disc supported by winged cherubs

Introduction: Clothes Make the Man
Nancy Micklewright

deteriorating textile in crimson

Religious Belief in Burial: Funerary Dress and Practice at the Late Antique and Early Islamic Cemeteries at Matmar and Mostagedda, Egypt (Late Fourth–Early Ninth Centuries CE)
Alexandra D. Pleşa

textile pattern

Inscribed Horizontal Bands on Two Cloth-of-Gold Panels and Their Function as Part of an Īlkḫānid Dress
Corinne Mühlemann

gold embroidered dress

Early Modern European Court Fashion Goes Global: Embroidered Spanish Capes from Bengal
Barbara Karl

embroidered depiction of bird in flights, and lion-like animal attacking a gazelle. mountain and vegetation in background

The Emperor’s Humbler Clothes: Textures of Courtly Dress in Seventeenth-Century South Asia
Sylvia Houghteling

ink on paper of chicks and cloud/wave patterns

Sartorial Identity: Early Modern Japanese Textile Patterns and the Afterlife of Ogata Kōrin
Frank Feltens

painting o a mustached young man wearing an orange striped headdress

Lord Byron (1788–1824) in Albanian Dress: A Sartorial Response to the Ottoman Empire
Jennifer M. Scarce

sepia photograph of a woman with an elaborately decorated dress leaning over a stone, wearing a metal hair ornament

You Are What You Wear: Ottoman Costume Portraits in the Elbise-İ Osmaniyye
Erin Hyde Nolan

a woman in a silk dress descending a spiral staircase

From Costume to Fashion: Visions of Chinese Modernity in Vogue Magazine, 1892–1943
Heather Chan

painting of a woman sitting in a wooden chair in navy patterned dress against pink walls

Imperial Desire and Female Subjectivity: Umehara Ryūzaburō’s Kunyan Series
Ikeda Shinobu, translated by Ignacio Adriasola
Critical Notes by Ignacio Adriasola

five elderly men in dark red hats and bright performance outfits

Adorning the Buddhas: The Ceremonial Regalia of the Daśa Sthavira Ājus from Kwā Bahā, Nepal
Kerry Lucinda Brown

several men seated. wearing white and light-colored clothing

Omani Men’s National Dress: Displaying Personal Taste, Asserting National Identity
Aisa Martinez

digital initiative

Digital Initiatives
Dimmig, Camerlengo

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