خلاصه ماشینی:
2 After the Sultan's return, the women reverted to the old fashion," although years later ibn-Taghribirdl still saw chemises made according to Kurnushbugha's order-and called after him al-qumsan ul-Kumushbughawi:yya-and described them as having sleeves like those worn by Bedouins.
(where Ketbugha is a mistake for Kurnushbugha), The edict was prompted by an outrageous use of 92 ells for a chemise I Dozy, Dictionairie des vetemmts, p, 374, knew this story from a passage in Suyu\i but quoted in addition a passage from ibn-Iyas which is not to be found in our printed edition.
6 The fact that lists of wo• men's trousseaux in marriage-contracts of the Mamluk period make no mention of drawers or-what is far more important-of the luxurious trouser-bands, may be quoted as an argumentum ex silentio against the assumption that drawers were very popular.
t As headgear they used a piece of cloth ('i$iiba) wound turban• like round that part of the wrap (izar) which covered the hair similar in fashion perhaps to that of Bedouin women today,3 except that it was sometimes richly embroidered and adorned with-precious stones.
As Arnold von Harff described it, "women wear a high thing.
Appropriate orders were given to dealers in " papers of women," and agents of the then police inspector (mubtasib) Yashbak al• Jamali went round the bazaars, and on finding a woman wearing either of these types of headgear, they would beat her and pillory her with the 'i$ciba hanging down from her neck.