Reflection from Houghteling and Tinterow's Articles about Art and Fashion

Art and Fashion
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Sylvia Houghteling enlightens us about emperors’ expensive cotton clothes worn in South Asia. The imperial costumes were wealthy by the sensory experience the emperors achieved and its sophisticated poetic and political messages as an advancement of modern art. Houghteling (2017) describes the fine and smooth cotton, wool, and goat-hair fabrics used to manufacture finely crafted clothing. The author uses insights from other writers regarding the valuation of elite garments worn by emperors in the 17th century in South Asia. As noted from the various arguments from other writers, the Mughal imperial court did not use the textiles and dress to associate with the rest of the world but to display their rich cultural heritage (Houghteling, 2017). I agree with these arguments because the clothing had messages and paintings that had information regarding the South Asia heritage because they were not recognized as elite garments worldwide. 
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