. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . ngsketch. The unmarried ladies wear a habarah of whitesilk, or a shawl. Some females of the middle classes,who cannot afford to purchase a habarah, wear insteadof it an eezar; which is a piece of white calico, ofthe same form and size as the former, and is worn in thesame manner. On the feet are worn short boots orsocks (called khuff), of yellow morocco, and overthese the ** bdboog. This dress,
. An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833, -34, and -35, partly from notes made during a former visit to that country in the years 1825-28 . ngsketch. The unmarried ladies wear a habarah of whitesilk, or a shawl. Some females of the middle classes,who cannot afford to purchase a habarah, wear insteadof it an eezar; which is a piece of white calico, ofthe same form and size as the former, and is worn in thesame manner. On the feet are worn short boots orsocks (called khuff), of yellow morocco, and overthese the ** bdboog. This dress, though chiefly designed for females of thehigher classes, who are seldom seen in public on foot, isworn by many women who cannot often afford so far toimitate their superiors as to hire an ass to carry is extremely inconvenient as a walking attire. View-ing it as a disguise for whatever is attractive or gracefulin the person and adornments of the wearer, we shouldnot find fault with it for being itself deficient in grace :we must remark, however, that, in one respect, it fails * This is similar in form to tlie toVi of women of the lower orders, i e-presented in the engraving in page Ladies attired for RiJin; or Walking
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