cimness:doctorscienceknowsfandom:alatismeni-theitsa:Από αριστερά στα δεξιά, μια Εβραία, μια χριστιαν
cimness:doctorscienceknowsfandom:alatismeni-theitsa:Από αριστερά στα δεξιά, μια Εβραία, μια χριστιανή και μια μουσουλμάνα από τη Θεσσαλονίκη το 1873.From left to right: A Jewish woman, a Christian womanand a Muslim woman from Thessaloniki, Greece, 1873.I’m fascinated by the hair of the Christian woman. I think perhaps she’s unmarried, to be wearing her hair (so VERY) long & loose. Is it in many braids? Or is it just curling into locks on its own?Also, what’s that on the Jewish woman’s head? Is it crocheted?I did a reverse image search and found this article: “The Ultimate History Project | The City of Salonica: A True Crossroad, by Victoria M. Lord”, according to which the woman pictured is a Bulgarian Orthodox. Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Turkey are all very close to Thessaloniki and there’s a great deal of ethnic intermingling between them (particularly in this era, which was before Greece and Turkey attempted to exchange their populations of Christians and Muslims respectively their folk costumes are also quite similar, as I discovered from this amazing and fascinating blog called Folk Costume & Embroidery.There are a lot of pictures of Macedonian and Bulgarian folk costumes there; I think the one in the picture is probably from the area around Sofia. I couldn’t find any with the hair worn exactly like this, but then none of the pictures are quite this old either. I did find several with women wearing their hair loose under the headscarves, including one indicating the woman illustrated was engaged to be married, which might explain why her hair isn’t in braids like some of these: I do think her hair is loose and not corded, going by the texture near the ends, but I could be wrong with this image quality.As for the Jewish woman, the first article above indicates that the Jewish population of Thessaloniki likely immigrated when they were expelled from Castile and Aragon by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492, but her costume doesn’t look Spanish, which makes sense after 3-4 centuries. She would likely be Sephardic, and a google search for “Jewish Ottoman dress” shows several likely images. From the images at Wikipedia’s “History of the Jews in Thessaloniki” I would guess that the ornamentation is metal, perhaps coins or medallions attached to a little cap or a net holding the cap on. Here are some more images: -- source link
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