gold, pearls or expensive clothes. Rather they should invite their women who claiming religiosity, to good deeds." 159 In first Treatise of Botrous it is reported: "The women are recommended not to attach any importance to external decorations for showing beauty, like dying the hair, using ornamentation materials and wearing costly clothes, but to inward adornments which never perish and having great value near God." 160 The translator of the book Taareekh Libas, which is dedicated for studying all the world clothes and costumes throughout five hundred years, says: "Appearance of clothes was never something by coincidence or according to individual demand. But they emerged on basis of regional material and intellectual thoughts and demands of peoples, becoming a mirror fully indicating history of life of mankind." 161 Some experts made studies on relics and remains, historic inscriptions and prominent statues, concluding from them that coldness and heat never constituted the original cause of selecting the clothes but its cause was shyness and covering the privy parts. 162 In the book Taareekh Libas, whose author was an American researcher studied history of clothes till the year 1950, and which being a textbook taught in colleges, we find statement about all peoples and nations, manifesting in full details their clothes and costumes. The topics of this book, which contained pictures of clothes, were taken according to its writer's claim, from coins, images,
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159. Al-'Ahd Jaded, p. 336. 160. Al-Kitaab Al-Muqaddas, Baab 3, p. 353. 161. Tareekh Libass, p. 5. 162. Journal of Payam Zan, issue no. 19, p. 69.
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