Baggy trousers no. 93

Man’s baggy trousers (vraka, turk. dizlik) made of thick black cloth woven on the loom. The seams are machine-made. The body part consists of two pieces (86x86cm), which also form the back. At the waist the cloth is folded to a hem 4cm deep, through which runs an off-white girdle (turk. uçkur/uşgur). Below the waist in the middle of the front there is a vertical slit 24cm long, and another one of the same length on the back side. The body part is heavily pleated and baggy, extending to a length of 86cm, while the side parts are knee-length, 62cm long. They each consist of a single piece 40cm wide, which is folded lengthwise and ends with an opening of 20cm for the legs. The total width of the trousers is 2.12m. They are worn and repaired with patches. The garment comes from Kormakitis, a Maronite village. The fact that the middle baggy part is longer than the leg parts distinguishes it from the Turkish Cypriot dizlik, which has all its parts equally short, reaching to the knee[bib]402[/bib].