Carpet Slipper-Like Shoes
The outdoor shoes called edik look a lot like modern carpet slippers. They’re the forerunners of modern babouches, which are still worn in countries like Morocco.
Category: Descriptions
Socklike Leather Boots
The soft leather sock-boots called mest or iç edik (inner shoes) are one of the more unfamiliar items of Ottoman Turkish clothing. They were worn as indoor shoes, and were tucked into babouche-like edik when worn outside.
Boots
If the boots look soft, they’re probably the soft leather socks called mest, tucked into the babouche-like shoes called edik. If the boots look solid, they’re real boots, called çizme.
Baggy Colored Pants
This style of trousers was one of the most common leg coverings in the Ottoman world. They could be full-length or knee-length, and were worn by both sexes (although more often by men). We’re not sure what they were called, but the most likely candidate is caksir.
Slim-Fit Pants
This style of trousers, slim in the leg and voluminous through the rear, is one of the standard trouser styles worn by men (and a few fashionable early-17th-century women). Unfortunately, we have no idea what it was called.
Baggy White Pants
Are the pants worn by a man or a woman? If they’re worn by a woman, they’re underpants, or don. Women commonly wore don as their only leg coverings. If the pants are worn by a man, does he look underdressed? If he’s underdressed, the white pants are also don.…
Crownlike Ornament Around the Base of a Woman’s Hat
This crownlike decoration was called an istefan.
Fringed Scarf Hanging Down a Woman’s Back
The name and purpose of this scarf is something of a mystery, but it may have been called a nezkeb.
Veil that Goes Over a Woman’s Hat
The short white veil that goes over a woman’s hat is called a makrama.
Pillbox-Shaped Woman’s Hat
This style of hat, which was worn from at least the beginning of the 16th century and lasted until it was replaced by short, conical hats at the end of the century, has no name. Yeah. I know. Goddamned Ottomans. They name the hell out of everything else, but they…