Khalat

A Khalat (Persian: خلعت / ALA - LC: xal ʿ at), also Khilat ( Chilat ), (Russian: Chalat or чапан: Chapan / chapkan ), is a long-sleeved gown of silk or cotton, which, in different styles in Central Asia, Iran Pakistan and North India is worn by men and women.

In Persia, the Khalat or Chalat consists of a long, wide, verfertigten from cloth robe, in his time "in the value of 20 to 100, and even up to 200 ducats ," in Central Asia from a broad, long-sleeved robe of colored silk or cloth. Meyers encyclopedia says: " Chilat is a precious dress that give the princes of Persia and Central Asia as a gift of grace senior officials at good news, etc., and in Persia with solemn ceremony (C. - puschan ) is created by the Shah. " Even the ceremony itself, the presentation of the robe, was designated as Khalat or Khilat.

Light-colored pine marten furs, traded as American Sable, were still commonly sold in the Orient in the early 19th century, where, among other things, the Ehrenkhalate who gave away the Sultan, were fed with it. Yellow was there as the color of the state and the power, and so these countries were also customers for the elsewhere just because of the natural reddish Gelbtons little demand Kolinskyfells.

1841 writes Carl von Hügel something different: " Khelat, Khilat or Khalat, the robe of honor, which is a king a great lord. Mostly so that a title is connected. It usually consists of two Schahl, a turban, trousers stuff, gold fabric ( Kimkham ) for a dress, often made of jewels and weapons. "

In Russia, the return to the Russian roots Chalat the term for a quite representative, not necessarily in the style oriental dressing gown, in which guests could be received after 1812 in the frame. Thus, the 1827 manufactured by Tropinin Portrait of Pushkin shows the poet trendy entirely on the amount of time in an elegant, silk-lined Chalat.