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Modern Ottoman Dress between National Authenticity and Bourgeois Universality
Katja Jana
Abstract In this essay I discuss an example of the politics of dress in the late Ottoman Empire, examining it in the light of modernization and the development of national and bourgeois male identities. The industrial production of fabrics and clothing led to new styles of dress spreading almost all over the globe. In accordance with other issues affecting the modernization of numerous aspects of everyday life, dress became an area in which these changing global dynamics manifested themselves. One example is the case of Mehmed Efendi, who was arrested in 1907 in a hostel in the Marmara region for supposedly wearing the wrong kind of headgear. This case sheds light on the heated debates of the time concerning nationally specific dress and the international standards of bourgeois identity in the context of nation-building and modernization. I analyze this example against the backdrop of questions concerning concepts of alternative and multiple modernities.
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