Photograph of Veleddin Hüseyin no. 13

Photograph of Veleddin Hüseyin (1887-1963). The photograph was taken by Glaszner around 1920. The young man is standing with his right arm resting on a pil­lar which has a coat-of-arms in relief on the front. On the pillar there is a goblet-shaped painted glass vase containing a bunch of flowers. The background shows the colonnaded balustrade of a balcony, as often seen in neoclassical houses. Veleddin holds a riding kırbaç (whip) with both hands. He has a moustache and short hair covered on top with a skull­cap, around which is wrapped a white headscarf decorated with lace (oyalı yemeni) in the tulip (lale) pattern. Over his white gömlek (shirt) he wears a waistcoat made of light-coloured blue broadcloth and richly decorated with applied silk braids which form thick bands all around the edges and schematized vegetal patterns on either side of the chest. Similar decoration composed of curvilinear patterns ending in heart-shaped leaves and spirals decorate either side of the pleated çuha şalvar; these baggy breeches are also made of broadcloth and match the waistcoat. This attire is a good example of the traditional fes­tive Turkish Cypriot townsman’s costume. He also wears a Tripoli (tarab­lus, turk. trablus) guşak (sash, turk. kuşak) around the waist, hand-knitted çorap (stockings) with square patterns (lokumlu, in the shape of lokum = Turkish delight) and black yarım kundura (low-heeled shoes, turk. yarim kuntura = half shoes) decorated with a bow. A long double watch chain seems to be hanging from the neck, under the collar of the gömlek (shirt); it falls down below the waist and turns upwards to dis­appear in the guşak (sash, turk. kuşak), where the watch (köstekli saat) must have been kept.