Hi everyone welcome to my third post in this week. I want to talk about how did Turkish women fashion understanding has been changed? and also what was trend recently and what are new trends in Istanbul now ? 

A little history of Turkish fashion from the Ottoman Empire to the founding of the Turkish Republic ;

Fashion and the art of adornment has been deeply rooted in Turkish culture at least since the heydays of the Ottoman harem.

The use of make-up among the harem women was also common. The harem ladies would brighten their complexions with almond and jasmine paste, emphasize their eyes, eyebrows and eyelashes with black carbon, and for the lips they put on red, long before Chanel’s famous lipstick came along. 

 

 

 

 

After the demise of the Ottoman empire and the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923, fashion changed completely. Atatürk, the founding father of Turkey, initiated a number of reforms for the sake of modernizing the country: wearing the veil for women and the fez for men was forbidden, the Arabic alphabet was replaced by the Latin alphabet, families had to take a last name, and women were granted civil rights including the right to vote and to hold public office.

 

AFTER ATATURK

The women had short hair, flapper dresses, coats with fur collars, fancy clutches and glamorous cigarette holders. Men contributed to the period’s style with well-tailored double row suits worn with hats, and tuxedos.

Actually it made me remember my media studies class because last week our topic was Technology and social change which is relevant with my topic. In every single country fashion has been changed in every cycle of life and this is like a technology. When i heard about my family  story about technology it made me so suprised and when i look fashion in the earlier its also made me suprised..