DRESS REFORM IN PERSIA
Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Persia, in order- to inculcate a national spirit throughout the various races and tribes that make up the Persian people, thought that uniformity in dress would contribute more to this national unity than anything else. He therefore devised what is known as the Pahlavi cap, which is an exceedingly simple piece of head dress. Dress reform did not stop at headgear. All Persians have been ordered to wear what is known in the West as lounge suits. For the city man of Teheran this is no great hardship, but the country people, the muleteers, shepherds, and farmers, have no use for it. Neither do the rurals take kindly to the new cap. Reluctant to part with the fez and Arab headgear that they and their fathers before them have been wearing for centuries, they have hit upon an ingenious idea which makes the Pahlavi cap ridiculous. They wear it on top of their fezzes and turbans.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 13
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164DRESS REFORM IN PERSIA Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 13
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