{"id":1926,"date":"2018-06-13T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T22:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/?page_id=1926"},"modified":"2021-08-24T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:24:00","slug":"mest-or-ic-edik","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/garments\/what-were-they-called\/footwear\/mest-or-ic-edik\/","title":{"rendered":"Mest or I\u00e7 Edik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most people, the first layer of footwear was a soft leather sock called a mest or an i\u00e7 edik (inner shoe). It was worn indoors. To go outside, people slipped the mest into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/garments\/what-were-they-called\/edik\/\">edik<\/a>, or outer shoe.<\/p>\n<p>Leather socks were one of the Arab innovations that traveled alongside Islam. Nowadays, all-leather or leather-and-elastic versions of these socks, called <em>khuff<\/em>, are sold for wear in mosques, but in the 16th century they were everyday wear across the Islamic world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1814\" style=\"width: 849px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ayse-Sultans-shoe-mid-17th-century.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1814\" class=\"wp-image-1814 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ayse-Sultans-shoe-mid-17th-century.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"839\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ayse-Sultans-shoe-mid-17th-century.png 839w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ayse-Sultans-shoe-mid-17th-century-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ayse-Sultans-shoe-mid-17th-century-768x530.png 768w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ayse-Sultans-shoe-mid-17th-century-200x138.png 200w, https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Ayse-Sultans-shoe-mid-17th-century-150x104.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 839px) 100vw, 839px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ay\u015fe Sultan&#8217;s mest and edik, mid-17th century.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most people, the first layer of footwear was a soft leather sock called a mest or an i\u00e7 edik (inner shoe). It was worn indoors. To go outside, people slipped the mest into an edik, or outer shoe. Leather socks were one of the Arab innovations that traveled alongside\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/garments\/what-were-they-called\/footwear\/mest-or-ic-edik\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1814,"parent":1983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,98,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-final-names","category-garments","category-proper-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1926\/revisions\/2608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}