Photograph of Kemal Mustafa Damdelen and Ahmet no. 040

Street photograph taken by an unknown photographer in 1940. It shows Kemal Mustafa Damdelen (born in 1912, died in 1964) and Ahmet, from Kiados (Çatoz), in Mesaoria. Kemal wears a cotton shirt woven on the loom and an English cashmere jacket, silk sash (tarabulus kuşak), blue broadcloth breeches (çuha şalvar) with the traditional applied decoration on both sides, hand-knitted stockings (Temroz çorabı), with patterns, black elastic-sided ankle boots with white leg upper parts (gonç, namely the part of the boot that comes up to the ankle). Ahmet wears black baggy trousers similar to vráka (şalvar), a red woollen loom-woven sash around the waist, and black knee boots (kuntura çizmesi) tied under the knees with strings (çizme bağı) made of goat hair.