Overview
Sasanian noble dress centres on a close-fitting, front-opening coat or caftan worn over a tunic and full trousers tied so that streamers of cloth flutter at the leg. Kings added tall jewelled crowns and a great ball of gathered hair, the korymbos, above the diadem.
How it is worn
The coat is belted at the waist over the trousers, the fluttering leg-ribbons and rich patterned silk giving the figure movement and magnificence, as carved at Taq-e Bostan and hammered on Sasanian silver plates. Colour, pattern, and the shape of the crown announced exact royal and noble rank.
History
Sasanian silks and dress were prized across Eurasia and carried their roundel patterns and coat-and-trouser cut into Byzantine, early Islamic, and Tang Chinese fashion. The Sasanian court look is one of the great sources of the medieval Near Eastern and Central Asian robe.