{"id":2405,"date":"2020-02-13T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/?page_id=2405"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:55:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T18:55:07","slug":"hairstyles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/womens-garb-piece-by-piece\/hairstyles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hairstyles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/issendai.com\/ottoman-turkish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Melchior-Lorichs-Three-Turkish-girls.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;Four Turkish Girls,&#8221; by Melchior Lorichs, 1555-1559.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the 16th century, there appears to have been only one female hairstyle: a single braid down the back. As you can see on the two rightmost women in the drawing above, the braid could be ended with a jeweled tassel of gold or silver chains called a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/garments\/what-were-they-called\/headgear\/sacbagi\/\">sa\u00e7ba\u011f\u0131<\/a> <\/em>(sach-baa-ih).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The braid was as long as the woman could grow it. The 17th-century poet Karacao\u011flan fantasizes about a young wife whose hair is so long that she can wrap it around her waist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> As she wakes up in the morning, praises herself<br>Golden sa\u00e7ba\u011f\u0131 reaches her heels . . .<br>I will buy you a golden sa\u00e7ba\u011f\u0131<br>Gather it up and wrap around your slender waist . . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Art shows a smooth hairline with a center part, and any wisps of hair tucked behind the ear. Occasionally, though, there are hints of sidelocks. The clearest depiction of this is from a drawing by Melchior Lorichs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/issendai.com\/ottoman-turkish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Melchior-Lorichs-Head-of-a-woman.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;Head of a Woman,&#8221; by Melchior Lorichs, 1555-1559.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the 16th century, there appears to have been only one female hairstyle: a single braid down the back. As you can see on the two rightmost women in the drawing above, the braid could be ended with a jeweled tassel of gold or silver chains called a sa\u00e7ba\u011f\u0131 (sach-baa-ih).\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/womens-garb-piece-by-piece\/hairstyles\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1043,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-ottoman-turkish-clothing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405","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=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2405\/revisions\/2406"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.issendai.com\/16thcenturyistanbul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}