History of Traditional Arabic Clothing

Arab attire consisted of an izar and a turban

and a qamis. In the Prophet's time, attire consisted

of a qamis and an izar.

The izar and qamis are much like the attire worn in Yemen today.

It came into use in the period after the Prophet's era, and through the era of the Rightly Guided

Caliphs.

Even after the Umayyad era, in fact, it was the attire

known as the thawb, which is our current attire, though some

names differ. The latest developments in Arab

attire came later, but this thawb appeared more

during the Abbasid era and spread then.