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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Street photograph, most probably taken in the Public Garden in Nicosia, outside the Paphos Gate. It shows an old lady standing between two young persons, a woman on her right and a man on her left, and holding a bunch of flowers. She wears a two-piece black çarşaf over a light-coloured inner garment. The upper part covers the hair and part of the forehead. Her black bar shoes are fastened with a buckle and her stockings are white.

The young lady wears a modern variation of the çarşaf, a skirt long enough just to cover the knees, combined with a chequered, fitted jacket over what seems to be a blouse. The çarşaf covers the head, being tied around the forehead, and comes down at the back, leaving the hair visible below it on both sides. She wears low-heeled black shoes over white stockings.

The man is dressed in a European-style two-piece suit, a woollen knitted pullover over a dark-coloured shirt and a striped scarf around the neck. Black leather shoes and belt, a fresh carnation on the lapel of the jacket and a handkerchief in the pocket, complete his attire.

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Street photograph of a young man with moustache. He is dressed in a mixed style, wearing a European jacket over a traditional costume. It consists of a white woven shirt, blue, knee-long baggy trousers (şalvar) and a sash (tarabulus kuşak) around his waist, from which is hanging the chain (köstek) of his watch. He also wears ankle boots (gonçlu potin) and knitted stockings with flower patterns on white background. His fez is wrapped in a scarf (yemeni) decorated with lace. Attached to the lapel of his jacket is a carnation, and in his breast pocket a handkerchief. He also wears two rings, one on each hand.

 

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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Studio photograph showing two young men, Hüseyin İsmail and Halil Ahmet, standing close together, both with short hair in kahkül style and Hitler-type moustache. The man on the right of the photograph (Halil Ahmet) wears a European-style suit made of striped fabric, a white shirt and a patterned tie. A white handkerchief appears in his breast pocket. His shoes are also western-style laced shoes. The other man (Hüseyin İsmail) wears a European jacket over his white shirt, in the opening of which a vest (fanella) is to be seen underneath. The rest of his dress is traditional. He wears çuha şalvar made of light blue broadcloth and decorated with black patterns. Around his waist he has a colourful silk sash (ipek tarabulus kuşak). His white woven stockings come up to the knees where they meet the ends of the şalvar. His footwear consists of black elastic-sided ankle boots (gonçlu potin) with white upper parts. A carnation is attached to the lapel of the jacket, and the breast pocket holds a handkerchief and a cigarette. Both men have cigarettes behind their ears, expressing their desire to look flamboyant.

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Street photograph showing two young men with short hair and moustaches, standing side by side. As in No. 043, the one on the right of the photograph is dressed in European style, wearing a jacket of dark fabric over a white shirt, and light-coloured trousers. Dark leather laced shoes complete his appearance. The man on the left wears a light-coloured European-style jacket and shirt, over black knee-breeches (kara dizlik), a dark-coloured sash (kuşak) around his waist, knitted white stockings with linear patterns and laced ankle boots (gonçlu potin). The stockings come up to the knees, where they are tied with narrow bands.

Both men have the same badge on their chest, inscribed with an A and the number 4000 underneath.

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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Street photograph of Rifat Mehmet Ali (1915-1990), taken about 1940. He wears a white shirt, a dark-coloured jacket and black breeches (kara dizlik). The jacket has a breast pocket, in which there is a watch with its chain hanging down and attached to one of the jacket´s buttonholes. A Tripoli sash (tarabulus kuşak/guşak) appears around his waist. His hand-knitted patterned stockings are tied with a string just below the knees, and his shoes are plain and flat (kuntura). The attire is completed with a high Ottoman fez (Osmanlı fesi) with a laced headscarf (yemeni) around it.

 

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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Street photograph taken by an unknown photographer in 1940. It shows Kemal Mustafa Damdelen (born in 1912, died in 1964) and Ahmet, from Kiados (Çatoz), in Mesaoria. Kemal wears a cotton shirt woven on the loom and an English cashmere jacket, silk sash (tarabulus kuşak), blue broadcloth breeches (çuha şalvar) with the traditional applied decoration on both sides, hand-knitted stockings (Temroz çorabı), with patterns, black elastic-sided ankle boots with white leg upper parts (gonç, namely the part of the boot that comes up to the ankle). Ahmet wears black baggy trousers similar to vráka (şalvar), a red woollen loom-woven sash around the waist, and black knee boots (kuntura çizmesi) tied under the knees with strings (çizme bağı) made of goat hair.

 

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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Photograph of Emine (born in 1917 in Kanli) and Tahsin Mustafa Damdelen (1912-1964). It was taken in the Public Garden, Nicosia, between the years 1938 and 1940.

Emine stands on the right side of her husband. She wears the typical Muslim women’s outdoor overgarment, in its modern version of the late 1930s; the headdress is low on the front and leaves exposed only the part of the hair which covers the ears. The veil falls on either side and encloses the upper part of the body down to the waist; on the chest it is closed with a pearl pin; the skirt is wide and reaches just below the knees; this garment is called kırmalı çarşaf (pleated). Under the çarşaf she wears a white shirt with broad cuffs which can be seen below the edges of the veil. Her stockings are also white, while the footwear, which she acquired as dowry from her parents, consists of two-tone slip-on court shoes with peaked toecaps, and high heels. Around her neck is a necklace with a series of beads. In her right hand she holds a white bag with a strap, the top fashion of that time.

The man’s curly hair has a parting on the left and falls to the right. He wears a western-style jacket made of English brown fabric; the coat is closed with two buttons and has a double collar and three pockets; in the left breast pocket is a silk handkerchief decorated with lace. Under the jacket he wears a white silk shirt bought in 1938; the wide collar of the shirt falls over the jacket’s collar. This European-looking costume on the upper part, is combined with traditional dress items on the lower body: loom-woven knee-breeches (dizlik) made of cotton cloth dyed black by a dyer (boyacı), hand-knitted stockings (Temroz çorabı, of the style used in Templos, in Keryneia) with white patterns on black background (a flowerpot with a tripartite flower motif with juxtaposed birds on top), and elastic-sided ankle boots (lastikli konçlu potin) with lighter upper parts. He holds a folding stick in his left hand.

Source: Emine Damdelen.

Village: Kioneli (Gönyeli), Nicosia District.

 

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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Photograph of Mustafa Keleş (1915-1987). It was taken in 1938 by an anonymous street photographer, with an artificial background unrolled behind the person. Mustafa has a moustache and his hair is so combed as to fall on his right side, a hairstyle known as kahkül or pipi. He wears a white poplin shirt with the collar falling over the collar of his jacket, which is of western style, made of English fabric, with three buttons and three pockets. The lower part of his body is covered with baggy trousers, woven on the loom with white cotton thread; they reach down to the knees, where they meet the black leather knee boots; the boots are of ‘Frankish’ style and show decorative horizontal relief bands.

Source: Emine Keleş.

Village: Kalyvakia (Kalavaç), Mesaoria, Nicosia District.

 

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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Studio photograph of Şifa Hüseyin Esengin (1908-1989). The photograph was taken in 1938, when she was 30 years old. Seven years earlier, in 1931, Şifa had become a midwife. In the studio she is standing near a column with a podium, on which she rests her right hand. The background shows a romantic landscape. Her wavy hair is just long enough to cover her ears. She wears a full-length sleeved dress made of cotton cloth (idare) with a narrow belt of the same fabric around the waist. The rather narrow, straight skirt shows vertical stitched lines in front (sewn with a machine). Two obliquely sewn lines also appear on either side on the breasts. A separate, detachable wide collar made of a different white fabric, covers the shoulders and all around the chest and back. It is tied in front with cords. This modern style is complemented with thin, transparent stockings and white, perforated, high-heeled sandal bar shoes with a buckle fastening.

Photograph donated by Şifa’s son, Yusuf Esengin.

Village: Kioneli (Gönyeli), Nicosia District.

Translator: 
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
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Photograph of a young girl with long hair, dressed in a modern light-coloured dress with a white collar. A cord is tied in front and falls on the chest ending with tassels. The dress has long sleeves and probably a belt of the same fabric at the waist. Her hair is held back by a metallic band, both functional and decorative. Earrings hang from her pierced ears.

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