Photograph of Gara Hasan and Çolacık Hüseyin no. 4

Photograph of two young men, Gara Hasan and Çolacık Hüseyin, standing side by side. The photo­graph was taken around 1915. Both have short hair and a moustache. Gara (turk kara) Hasan holds a kırbaç (whip) in his right hand – a striking example of Cy­priot ‘bullies’ of that time. He wears a fes (fez) in the form of a üskifi fes; (üsküf is a rounded skull­cap, a knitted bonnet or cap) and is surrounded by a yemeni (heads­carf) decorated with lace imitating oleander flowers (dört yapraklı ağı çiçeği). His white gömlek (shirt) is loom-woven and has a short collar and long sleeves ending in cuffs. Over the shirt he wears a cepken dikme yelek (sleeveless waistcoat) with applied braided decoration (gaytan, turk. kaytan) and around his waist a woollen loom-woven kırmızı guşak (red sash, turk. kırmızı kuşak). His dizlik (knee-breeches) are black and the long handmade white çorap (stockings). The black lastikli potin (ankle boots) have elastic on both sides. He also has a watch with a silver chain, which seems to be hanging from his waist guşak (sash, turk. kuşak). Çolacık Hüseyin wears an Ottoman, flat-topped fes (fez) with a yemeni (headscarf) around its lower part. The scarf is decorated with lace reproducing the jasmine (yasemin) motif. His white loom-woven gömlek (shirt) is combined with şalvar (breeches) made of coloured sky-blue broadcloth (çufa, turk. çuha), and a double folded multi-coloured guşak (sash, turk. kuşak) from Tripoli (tarab­lus, turk. trablusk) around the waist. The çorap (stockings), which reach up to the knee, are handmade and colourful, decorated with the vertically arranged ‘snake bone’ pattern (ilan, turk. yılan (snake) kemiği). The black ankle boots are provided with elastic (las­tik) on both sides, to facilitate wearing. This traditional attire is accompanied by a rather ‘modern’ black sakko (jacket) of western style. It is worth noting that the şalvar (baggy breeches) of Hüsey in, which seem to have applied decoration alongside the legs, seem to match with the richly decorated waistcoat worn by Yusuf. This combination would make a typical old traditional festive Turkish Cypriot costume, known from preserved examples and photographs.