You can “dress for success” or believe “clothes make the man.” In March, the subject of dress came up in three Central Asian countries, in one case because the clothing was “foreign ...

Splendid Attire of 19th-Century Central Asia,” even though the clothing in the show dates from relatively modern times. Iranian, Turkic and Mongol nomads invaded areas that stretched from the ...

Farhad stresses the degree to which clothing mattered as a status symbol among the roaming Central Asian peoples of the 19th century. “People were much more mobile than they are now,” she says.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- For most of the last two decades, China has been the most obvious source of foreign direct investment for the countries of Central Asia. But for the two poorest countries of ...