Photograph of Ayalı Mehmet Bey no. 1

The photograph shows a young man sitting on a village chair with his right leg rest­ing on the left. A blanket hangs in the background. The young man is Ayalı Mehmet Bey; he was born in 1895 and died in 1913. He has short hair and a short moustache. His head is covered with an Ottoman fes (fez, turk. Osmanlı durulla fes) surrounded by a headscarf, which is decorated with lace in narcissus (turk. nergis) pattern. He wears a light-coloured gömlek (shirt)  made of ordinary fabric; it has long sleeves ending in cuffs, a short collar and an opening at the centre front closed with buttons. Over the gömlek (shirt) he wears a western-style jacket. Loom-woven şalvar (pleated baggy trousers) come down to the knees; the long white woolen, square-patterned çorap (stockings) come over the trousers and stop below the knees. Around the waist there is a wide guşak (sash, turk. kuşak). He wears slip-on kundura (shoes, turk. kuntura) with medium high heels; on the front, they are decorated with a dark broad band.