Mirzai (garment)

A mirzai (or mirzaee) was a garment similar to a jacket with "long and loose sleeves and open cuffs".

The mirzai was sometimes made with cotton padding to protect the wearer from cold.

[1][2] Mirzai or mirzāi is a Hindustani language word that means a jacket.

[3] John Forbes Watson describes a mirzaee in his work titled Textile Manufactures and Costumes of the people of India as a garment of “respectable Mahomedans” and high ranking servants employed by Europeans, who wore the mirzai beneath an outer garment called a kuba, or quba.

[2] A kufcha was a similar garment with tight sleeves, and dugla was a term for a mirzai that was quilted.