Sociology of Traditional Clothes of Women in the Southern Seashore of Iran: a focuse on the cultural and natural Geography

This paper studies traditional clothes of women from a sociological view regardless of a historical viewpoint. The paper focouses on the functions of traditional clothes of women in the southern seashore of Iran. It is theorethically based on the functionalism and sociology of dress theories. The method of paper in aspect of approach is qualitative, and the research data has been gathered by documenting and observation of differnet traditional clothes of women in the areas of “Boushehr”, “Hormozgan” and “Khouzestan” provinces. Based on these data, the effects of four basic factors (natural geography, cultural geography, religion and job) in the formation of different traditional clothes of women in forementioned provinces of Iran have been described and the impact of these factors on the structural patterns and visual decorations of these clothes has been analyzed. The paper assumes that mentioned factors affect on the design and decoration of traditional clothes of women in the southern seashore of Iran. The results show that most important factor on the form, design and texture of traditional clothes of women in the southern seashore of Iran is natural geography, then religion. The effects of cultural geography and job are in the third and fourth ranks.