What Did Iranian Women Wear Before Islam?

  In the Avesta (between 1000 and 500 b.c.e.?). Little concrete information can be gleaned from the Avesta itself about the dress worn by the Iranian people among whom it was composed (see Avestan people). Several general clothing items are mentioned but mostly not described: vaŋhana- or vastra- “dress,” adka/aṱ.ka “mantle”. In Nērangistān 91-96 the clothes to be worn at the sacrifice are described