Sanat Kitabevi

The study of clothes and dressing has great potential for social and cultural history. Typically Ottoman urbanities situaed their fellow men after a glance at the clothing worn by the latter. As to the womens, such conclusions were more diffucult to draw,as all females were to be modestly covered up and ideally almost invesible. Yet in practise, at least from the eighteenth century onwards, it was often possible, at least in Istanbul, to distunguish fashionable from soberly pious women. To be aware of people's modes of dressing thus was part of knowing one's way around in Ottoman society.(Arka kapaktan)

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