---
node: fashion_safavid
type: fashion
slug: safavid_iran_fashion
title: "Fashion in Safavid Iran"
lead: "Safavid court dress was marked by long robes and a distinctive tall turban wound on a red baton (the taj, the Qizilbash cap), with a sash; the Isfahan school of painting records its grace."
published: 2026-07-28
updated: 2026-07-28
image_file: safavid_iran_fashion.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Youth_Holding_a_Bottle_by_Reza_Abbasi.jpg"
image_author: "Reza Abbasi"
image_license: "Public domain"
change: "Created as a fashion sub-page under the history section, with a period image (iran region)"
requester: internal
reason: "Per the owner's decision, fashion lives under each history era"
---

## Overview

Safavid Iran was a great producer of fine figured silk and velvet, and court dress was splendid.

## Key garments and style

Men belted a long, close-fitting robe and wore the tall taj turban wound on a red core — the cap that gave the Turkic "Qizilbash" (red-heads) who backed the shah their name. Painters such as Reza Abbasi drew the graceful dress of youths and women.

## Transition

In the 18th-century Afsharid and Zand periods, this court style was carried on with new headgear.