Editing Sogdia (section)

=== Clothing ===
[[File:Sogdian New Year Festival, Northern Qi.jpg|thumb|Sogdians, depicted on the [[Anyang funerary bed]], a Sogdian sarcophagus in China during the [[Northern Qi]] dynasty (550–577 AD). [[Guimet Museum]].]]
Early medieval Sogdian costumes can be divided in two periods: [[Hephthalite|Hephtalitic]] (5th and 6th centuries) and Turkic (7th and early 8th centuries). The latter did not become common immediately after the political dominance of the [[Gökturks]] but only in c. 620 when, especially following [[Western Turkic Khaganate|Western Turkic]] Khagan [[Tong Yabghu Qaghan|Ton-jazbgu]]'s reforms, Sogd was Turkized and the local nobility was officially included in the Khaganate's administration.<ref name="YatsenkoSogdianCostume">{{cite journal|url=http://www.transoxiana.org/Eran/Articles/yatsenko.html |first=Sergey A. |last=Yatsenko |title=The Late Sogdian Costume (the 5th – 8th centuries) |journal=Transoxiana |issue=Webfestschrift Marshak |year=2003}}</ref>

For both sexes clothes were tight-fitted, and narrow waists and wrists were appreciated. The silhouettes for grown men and young girls emphasized wide shoulders and narrowed to the waist; the silhouettes for female aristocrats were more complicated. The Sogdian clothing underwent a thorough process of Islamization in the ensuing centuries, with few of the original elements remaining. In their stead, turbans, [[kaftan]]s, and sleeved coats became more common.<ref name="YatsenkoSogdianCostume" />