Fez (hat)
The fez (Turkish: fes, plural fezzes or fezes from Arabic "Fas" the main town in Morocco before 1927),[1] as well as its equivalent, the tarboosh (Arabic: طربوش), is a felt hat.
There are two types of fezzes. One is a cone with a flat top, made of red felt. The other is a short cylinder made of kilim fabric. Both usually have a tassel attached to the top. The tarboosh and the modern fez, which is similar, owe much of their development and popularity to the Ottoman era.[2][3]
In 1925, the fez was banned in Turkey by the President, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.[4] Since 1925, the fez is not a part of Turkish men's clothing.
Fez (hat) Media
Portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II after his clothing reforms
Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood
David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi as law students in Istanbul c. 1914
Ottoman soldiers during the Greco-Turkish War (1897)
King Mohammed VI of Morocco meets John Kerry and Dwight Bush while wearing a fez
References
- ↑ "Fez" (online ed.). Merriam-Webster..
- ↑ Amphlett, Hilda (2003). Hats: a history of fashion in headwear. Mineola, New York: Courier Dover..
- ↑ Kaya, Ibrahim (2004). Social theory and later modernities: the Turkish experience. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press. p. 119..
- ↑ Deringil, Selim (January 1993). "The Invention of Tradition as Public Image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808 to 1908". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 35 (1): 9. doi:10.1017/S0010417500018247. S2CID 145056061.