Bosniak Fez and hats

[tyson]

turban and traditional dresses of croats from western herzegovina and western bosnia
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duvno/tomislavgrad

[hellboy87]

sooooooooooo............how widespread is the wearing of fez among Bosniaks? If it is??

[kapetan]

Today? People wear it at cultural events. Casualy? Mostly older people and obviosly in the more rural areas its worn more.

a few more good examples of nosnja







mixed bunch of serdara






this one has most of the major styles..

[hellboy87]

ok

so from the pictures,Bosniaks have a few types of hats and lots of varieties.




But during Ottoman times,who usually wore the fez? Was the fez hat ever like standardized as a like national hat? Formal hat?

[demaj]

Nov 19, 2008 0:36:50 GMT -5 hellboy87 said:

its my great-great grandfather Gorstak.

the thing is,then,anyone who came from Ottoman land was called a Turk.The Syro-Lebanese immigrants to the Americas were called that when they came there.Anatolian Armenians were called Asiatic Turks.This is because much of the West called the Ottoman Empire,Turkey(land of Turks).

The third Prime Minister of Malaysia,had a Circassian grandmother,but the press say he is part Turkish because his grandma was given to the Sultan of Johor by the Ottoman sultan.See? They say Turkish because of Ottoman descent.

Very hard to say when it comes to mine.My great-great grandfather started a family and died in Medan,Indonesia and then his wife and son(my great-grand dad) moved to Peninsular Malaysia.

And yes,I do know that Muslims in the Balkans and Greece were 'Turks'.



So,as for headgear,it was just those regional variety of turbans,and then the fez.

But do you know why,there was that mixed turban+fez thing? See many of that too!

maybe your family who is in balkins maybe turk but mine is not..I am albanian North kosva albanian... from Radavac peja.Not all balkins have turk blood.

[sjenica]

Bosniaks wore fez but fez isn't bosnian origin. It came from turks when Soultan Mahmud 2 measure it as officer hat. Although fez isn't Turkish origin. It has very origins. North Africa, Greek, Scottish. On the other hand, I say that Ottomans got from North Africa.