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Family portrait from Melikian familly photo album: The entire family is dressed in Western-style outfits. The wife, on the left, is wearing a floor-length, long-sleeved dress with a long necklace. The young boy is dressed in a  children's sailor outfit. The young girl is wearing a knee-length white dress with white socks and brown lace-up shoes. The man is wearing a dark-colored three-piece suit with a white high-collared  shirt, a cravat, and dark shoes.

The photograph depicts two women dressed in western-style outfits. The woman on the left is wearing a light-colored, floor-length skirt and a high-neck blouse. The woman on the right is wearing a long-sleeved, white blouse with collar and a floor-length skirt.

Melikian familly photo album

Zabelle Meutemediar Melikian is wearing a western-style skirt suit paired with a white frilly blouse and a bow tie.

Adam Kevorkian, Postmaster General, MBE, is wearing a dark-colored, Western-style three-piece suit with a matching vest, a white dress shirt, and a tri-colored tie. His suit is also adorned with his medals. He wears round, black-framed glasses.

Zabelle Meutemediar (1908–2007) married Hairabed Melikian (1903–1973) on July 5, 1925. She wore a calf-length, white, western-style dress with a long train, a hooded veil, and heeled shoes. He wore a western-style three-piece suit with a white vest, gloves, a bow tie, and a lapel pin.

Two Turks from Lefka a village mostly inhabited by Muslims; the two men stand side by side and wear similar traditional clothes, namely, light-coloured shirts, white many-folded trousers tied below the knees, a colourful sash at the waist, stockings and flat shoes. One of them also wears a fez set askew on the head; his striped stockings are tied under the knee. The stockings of the other man are patterned (Deschamps 1898, 182; Lazarides 2005, 166).

The photograph ‘Some of my Turkish Diggers at Cyprus’ presents eight men, four seated in a row and another four standing be­hind them. All of them wear the baggy, pleated vráka with a sash around the waist; their vráka is white except for two men, who wear a dark-coloured, probably black vráka tied at the waist with a string. Most of the upper garments, shirts and sleeved jackets, apparently of loom-woven striped cloth, are also of light hues. Only a young man seated in front wears a brilliant waistcoat crossed over the chest and made of a flower-patterned fabric. His head bears a tall fez with a tassel falling to his right side and a white headscarf wound around the lower part of the fez. The head-kerchief of the bearded old man sitting next to him is probably of printed fabric. The headdress of the other men presents a variety of the same type, namely fez or red cap wrapped with a scarf.

A fez workshop in Nicosia, depicted by Oulevay in the 1890s shows a craftsman, dressed in western-style costume and fez, blocking a fez with a mould; more moulds are placed on the same table and other examples are hanging on the wall (Deschamps 1897, III, fig. 171; Deschamps 1898, 51).

Three Ottoman Turks are presented in a landscape with palm trees. They are peasants carrying goods for sell­ing – one of them holds a steelyard for weighing. They are dressed with the typical up­per class costume, namely a long robe (cüppe) over the entari, under which are seen pantaloons reaching down to the ankles, and flat leather shoes. A vo­luminous turban completes their attire. (sarik)

The drawing pre­sents three women standing in front of a hamam. All of them wear the same dress consist­ing of light shirts, pleated long skirts over pantaloons fastened at the waist with buckled belts, and plain flat shoes or slippers. Impressive headdresses and rich jew­ellery adds to the luxury of the whole attire.