Analysis Of Women Veiling Culture In The Popular Samak-E-Ayar Tales

One of the main cultural elements existing in each society is the kind of clothes they wear. The main objective of the present study was to investigate women’s wearing in folklore tale called “Samak Ayyar”. This study covers women’s wear in Khorasan region about the late sixth and early seventh century AH. Seljuk area is the most important one because Iranians were the most powerful in this era and their political geographical domain was very vast and Seljuk kings were really attached to cultural and artistic development. Through this era, women’s were not at all different from men’s. Women’s clothes in early sixth century was similar to previous era. Women’s wears except for their mask and snood, were changeable; however, their clothes was accompanied with some kind of simplicity. In Samak Ayyar, the details of form and design of garments haven’t been included. The present study attempted to investigate and analyze various women’s wearing like snood, garments and shoes.