The Assiut attire was the blue-black clothing of high-class women. It was dyed with El-Nila, which is a plant used by ancient Egyptians as a natural dye that colours hair and fabric blue-black.

In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...