In Palermo, the capital of Sicily, Christmas began, and people celebrated it, both men and women. Ibn Jubayr noted that the dress of "Christians resembles the dress of Muslim women, they has fluent tongues, covered and veiled they went out on this feast. They wore gilded silk clothes and wonderful quilts, and they were veiled with colored niqab, and they wore golden slippers, and they went out... carrying all the adornments of Muslim women."