# Man's Angarkha (Outer Robe)

- By: India
- Date: Late 18th or early 19th century
- Medium: Cotton, plain weave; pieced
- Classification: Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions: 128.3 × 92.7 cm (50 1/2 × 36 1/2 in.)
- Culture: India
- Credit line: Belle M. Borland Endowment Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/248720)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/d145c7d6-2567-32e2-1047-4a8562d80774/full/843,/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Indian cotton weavers have been creating delicate, sheer textiles for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Elite men and women on the Indian subcontinent valued such fine, cotton muslin or mulmul—a specialty of Bengal that was made entirely by hand—for fashionable clothing.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0