Iranian Fashion in the 21st Century

Breaking the dress code: gender identity and fashion in Iran, 2019

Dressing is a symbolic tool for not only showing the social identity of individuals but also the Gender identity. We can manipulate the roles dressing plays and by modifications and supplement we use for decorating our body as an individual with repetitive symbols, we challenge the gender system of dressing. Therefore, fashion is one of the most important instruments in boosting the consciousness of gendered individuality. In This Paper, I investigated the effects of Fashion on construction of gender identity in Islamic Republic of Iran, where there are a lot of dressing codes and limitations monitored by the government.

More than four decades have passed since the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran. While almost all political analysts in the world consider the genus of this great phenomenon to be political, they have not yet been able to properly analyze its origin and internal essence. 3-Active resistance and creating religious and jihadi cultural waves with emerging characteristics.

Journal of History Culture and Art Research

This paper investigates costume fashion design of a specific Iranian group, specifically Baluch people. In this study, we have conducted a research to make an appropriated and functional association between modern daily fashion and Iranian local regional clothes as a social and cultural identity characteristic. There are some textile manufacturing industries in Iran, in which about 400,000 employees are working in different branches of production. Baluch's history indicates that their traditional costume has been derived from Iranian fundamental designs. Baluch culture has long been settled in the East of Iran. Baluch people are among the few Iranian tribes who are committed to their local costumes. This study is a cross-sectional survey in which 100 volunteers filled out the 7-scale questionnaires throughout some social networks among Iranian adult women (Age: 30±0.5). We also gathered some information based on the literature review, observation and museums and exhibitions of handicrafts visits. In this study, we focused on Baluch ethnic costumes, and we studied some articles in this field to develop a practical method in observing and assessing the sample costumers. Our data analysis indicates that 32% of volunteers partially agree that they have tendencies to pick fashionable clothing, 34% of volunteers agree that they prefer to be unique, 33% of volunteers partially agree that the national identity is important when it comes to fashion, and 28% of them partially agree about the importance of local origin of fashion. These results also express that 36% of volunteers partially agree that the traditional Iranian costume is appealing to them, and 33% of them partially agree that traditional costumes are usable as contemporary clothing. Per foregoing features of Baluch costumes in aesthetic, social and cultural context, and obtained results and relevant statistical analysis, it seems that Baluch costumes aesthetical identity can be applied in contemporary Iranian women's clothing, considering fashion principles. Last but not least, design process is based on questionnaire results and the traditional Baluch costume analysis. Our findings show that the importance of considering some criteria during design process, such as national identity, tendency to wear local and colorful costumes, applying traditional handcrafts and motifs on contemporary clothing, uniqueness and elegance. The presented design is recommended based on the deduced results of previous phases.

Religions, 2019

This essay focuses on the Iranian woman’s veil from various perspectives including cultural, social, religious, aesthetic, as well as political to better understand this object of clothing with multiple interpretive meanings. The veil and veiling are uniquely imbued with layers of meanings serving multiple agendas. Sometimes the function of veiling is contradictory in that it can serve equally opposing political agendas.

University of Washington Undergraduate Libraries, 2016

This research examines the politicization of women’s clothing under the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republican of Iran from the 1930s-1990s. It distinctively focuses on the governments’ use of women’s clothing to define their idea of Iranian nationalism and how their sumptuary policies affected women’s lives. It assesses the motives behind the sumptuary laws for each regime, and argues that both governments situated women as symbols of national health and honor, and used them as visualizations for the success of their platforms. Despite different interpretations of morality, this research suggests that both governments created these laws to “purify” their “corrupt” nation, using the same rhetoric. Paradoxically, this led to a sexualized culture that exists today in Tehran. It analyzes a wealth of primary sources including women’s magazines, political cartoons, poetry, newspapers, extant clothing, photographs, legislation, autobiographies, speeches, passports, Revolutionary-era books written by Iranian intellectuals, and oral interviews.

Iran (Persia) is a multicultural territory formed by different ethnic groups as various tribes and clans. Except Fars, peoples who are Shiite and speak in Persian, there are some main ethnic groups inhabit in Iran such as: Kurds, Lors, Turks, Baluchis, Gilaks, Turkmen, Arabs, Hazaras and Tajiks.

Choice Reviews Online, 2014

Clothing in India varies from region to region depending on the ethnicity, geography, climate and cultural traditions of the people of that region. India also has a great diversity in terms of weaves, fabrics and material of clothing. Color codes are followed in clothing based on the religion and ritual concerned. In India, women’s clothing varies widely and is closely associated with the local culture, religion and climate. Throughout the history of Persia, Iranian women wore jewelry and colored their body parts. Moreover, their garments were both elaborate and colorful. Rather than being marked by gender, clothing styles were distinguished by class and status. The position of woman in ancient Persia was apparently in nowise inferior to her standing in the vedic1 times of early India. The purpose of this study is to explore the important and common women clothing motifs between north of India and north of Iran (Because of the variety of dresses in different parts of India and Iran). In this paper, using historical and comparative study of library resources, women's clothing of northern Iran and India reviewed. This study shows that there is much in common between these garments reflected the cultures of the two countries.