Photograph of Kemal Mustafa Damdelen and Mehmet Paşa no. 23.

Street photograph of two young boys, Kemal Mustafa Damdelen (1912-1964) and Mehmet Paşa, taken by an anonymous photographer around 1925. The taller boy, Kemal Mustafa Damdelen, wears a traditional Ottoman fes (fez, turk. Osmanlı durulla fes) with a yemeni (headscarf) around its lower part. The yemeni (scarf) is ornamented with a lace reproducing the carnation (karanfil) motif all around the edges. His white shirt is made of loom-woven silk fabric (Turkish güğül, from the Greek koukkoúllin = cocoon; the fabric made of yarn from pierced cocoons is called koukkoulláriko). The dizlik (knee-breeches) are also white, loom-woven with double cotton thread. Around the waist he wears a kırmızı guşak (red sash, turk. kırmızı kuşak) also woven on the loom and dyed by local dyers; below the red sash, around the waist, is tied a second yemeni (scarf), decorated with the carnation lace pattern. The çorap (stockings), which come up to the knees, are hand-knitted, ornamented with the tooth pattern repeated in horizontal series on a white background. His black shoes are decorated with a bow-tie. The second boy, Mehmet Paşa, who stands in the same posture next to Kemal, is similarly dressed. He wears a traditional Ottoman fes (fez, turk. Osmanlı durulla fes), and a loom-wo­ven kırmızı guşak (red sash, turk. kırmızı kuşak) around the waist. The shirt is white as are also the dizlik (knee-breeches), which are made of dimido (dímito in Greek is dimity, a strong cotton fabric woven on the loom with four heddles). The çorap (stockings) are hand-knitted and under the knees they are tied with a plain strap with tassels. The kundura/kuntura shoes are black and decorated with a toka (buckle).