Among these changes, the king wanted to find a national dress for the head and to distinguish the people of Iraq from neighbouring, like the Ottomans who wear Fez or, and the Arabs in the Arabian peninsula who wear thawb.[1] It was distributed for the first time to ministers by Rustam Haider, one of the king's advisors at the time, The sedara was first worn by King Faisal I to encourage people to wear it, and from it is was named after him (Faisaliah) which is the second name for sidara.