Photograph of Hasan Mehmet Pol no. 7

Photograph of Hasan Mehmet Pol, taken in Ahmet Şevki’s studio in Nicosia. Ah­met Şevki was a well-known photographer who closed his shop in 1923 and emigrated to Turkey. Thus the photograph must have been taken some time before 1923. Painted decoration forms the background. The young man appears in a typical posture, standing near a corner table with his left hand resting on it. There is a flowerpot on the table and a vase with flowers on a lower shelf. Hasan has short hair and a thick moustache. He wears the Ottoman fes (fez, turk. Osmanlı durulla fes) with a white yemeni (headscarf) around it, ornamented with needle lace reproducing carnation motifs all around the edges. His gömlek (shirt) is made of a loom-woven coarse cloth, probably made of cotton and silk (idare, gc. itares = fine cotton yarn, silk-cotton fabric with warp of fine cotton yarn; see Papademetriou 1991, 125). The silk polychrome guşak (sash, turk. kuşak) around his waist was imported from Tripoli (tarab­lus turk. trablus). From the waist hangs a watch suspended from a chain. He also wears black dizlik (knee-breeches) and long çorap (stockings) that come up to the knees; the stockings are hand-knitted and decorated with a flowerpot pattern made with dyed cotton thread. The boots come up to the ankles and are provided with elastic on both sides (gonçlu potin).