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Keywords:
Ethnography/Civilization, Fashion, people & places


Producer(s): POINT DU JOUR

Coproducer(s)/co-financing:
ARTE France

Music: Olivier GIRARDOT

Length:  1x26

Format:  One-off

Original version: French

Versions available: International

Nationality: France

Year: 2008

Rights: all media, world

Support(s):  SD – Digital 16/9

Collection: DECODING DRESS CODES - series 1

DRESS IN TURKEY

Director(s): Ilana NAVARO – Writer(s): Ilana NAVARO   Contact Contact   Download Print page

What are the particular dress codes in Turkey? For starters, you should not mistake a traditional headscarf for an Islamic one.
Headdress and hats is a question of politics ever since Kemal Attaturk prohibited men from wearing the Fez. We learn of feminine seduction strategies compatible with a dress code approved by the Koran.

And that wearing a whig is a way to by-pass the law and allows practicing Muslim women to go to university where the veil is not tolerated.
And for the young? Each little Turkish boy dresses up as a sultan at least once in his life, on a special occasion…
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