Full-Length Robe with Hanging Sleeves

This style of overcoat, with its conspicuous consumption expressed through fabric-intensive vestigial sleeves, was the most fashionable, most formal, and most high-status of the overcoats. Made in the finest brocades and velvets with a broad, decorative collar, it was the hil’at, the grand court overrobe. Made in less showy materials, it was the ordinary overcoat of the well-to-do Ottoman.