(L-R): Meyrem Okay (born in 1936) and Ayşe Mustafa (born in 1933), taken in 1955 from Galinoporni/Kaleburnu.
The two young women are pictured wearing modern-sleeved dresses and traditional baggy pantaloons. This style of pantaloons was typically found in Karpasia/Karpaz. They are also wearing traditional headscarves (yemeni). This fashion style, a specific mesh of contemporary and traditional clothes, was not carried into the following decades, so this is a rare glimpse into a distinctive timeframe of Cypriot dress.
📸 source: The Aziz Damdelen Collection, Kioneli (Gönneli). Information provided by Euphrosyne Rizopoulou- Egoumenidou and Aziz Damdelen - ‘Turkish Cypriot dress: The Aziz Damdelen Collection’.
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