Evocation of a main room in the private part of a larger Ottoman city house, where only family members and female visitors were tolerated.
The costumes shown are urban daily dresses from the late 19th – first half of the 20th century.

All these women wearing a ‘yazma’ (headscarf) is somewhat misleading: at home, within the protected space of the private rooms, the use of a headscarf was no obligation. So, some women would wear them, and some other not.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.