photograph showing three standing men no.035

Street photograph showing three standing men, all with short hair and moustaches. The one on the right side is a police corporal (onbaşı), dressed in British uniform with Ottoman fez (Osmanlı fes). The man in the middle combines a European-style jacket with ;alvar, a colourful sash (tarabulus kuşak) around the waist, and a fez with a head-kerchief (yemeni) around it, decorated with lace. He also wears stockings and leather elastic-sided ankle boots (gonçlu potin). On the lapel of his jacket he has attached a light coloured rose. The third man, on the left, is wearing a European-style three-piece suit, a pastel coloured shirt and a fez. A fresh flower, probably a carnation, decorates the lapel of his jacket, which has a handkerchief in the breast pocket. His boots (gonçlu potin) are also elastic-sided. This photograph must date before the mid-1930s, when policemen stopped wearing the Ottoman fez.