Daniel 3:21

Their hats— Their turbans. As to the particulars of the dress of these young men, the first word seems to mean their principal garment, which hung loose and flowing down to their ancles, perhaps not unlike the Roman tunick; and Montfaucon in his Antiq. vol. 3: tells us, that the Babylonians, according to Herodotus, wore two tunicks, one linen, which fell down as low as their feet, and the other woollen, which they wore uppermost; upon there they also wore a Chlanidion, or kind of small cloak. The second word signifies a sort of hat or bonnet, which had for the most part brims or margins, but narrower than those of our modern hats. The third term, according to the versions, must mean their hose or high shoes; but I rather think, with some commentators, a hood or cloak may be intended, that hung down from the head over the shoulders, not unlike the Roman pallium, and of which sort probably was our Saviour's cloak, John 19:23 which was woven without seam from top to bottom.—Shaw tells us, that the mountain Arabs or Kabyles, who retain the primitive manners, have a cloak called a Burnoose, which seems to answer to this latter; and they have also an upper garment called Hyke, which may not much disagree with the former: "This last garment (he says) was six yards long, and five or six feet broad, and serves for a complete dress in the day, and for a covering at night." The last word, being a general term for vestments of all sorts, may be supposed to comprehend their under garments, and all that are not recited before. Xenophon has given us an actual exhibition in the person of Cyrus of each of the parts of dress here before us, in his eighth book of the Cyropaedia, p. 460. Edit. Hutch.