During the Ottoman period, rulers and palace women wore elaborate clothes made from precious fabrics like silk and gold. Rulers wore a kavuk hat and caftan over shirt and pants, while women in the palace wore long dresses under caftans along with hoods and gold belts decorated with stones. Common women in Anatolia wore simpler wool outfits, and styles varied across the vast Ottoman Empire, with men sometimes wearing shalwar, fez and turbans.

1. During Ottoman period, rulers wore kavuk and
caftan under which they wore shirt and pants.

2. These clothes were usually made with precious fabrics such
as silk and wool. Gold yarns were sometimes used, too.
Floral patterns like tulips, carnations roses were usually
used as decoration.

3. The women in the palace wore
long dresses under their
caftans. They wore hood on
their heads. The fabrics were
usually very valuable silk and
satin.

4. They wore shirt
under the
caftan and gold
belts decorated
with precious
stones.

5. In those years,
women cover
their faces with
tulle when
they were out.

6. The women
in Anatolia
usually wore
simpler
clothes of
wool.A

8. Since Ottoman
Empire had a vast
area, there were
different style of
outfits.

9. The men
wore
shalwar, fez
and
turban.

10. A man and a
woman from
Central
Anatolia and
on the right
a shepherd.

12. A RABBI (ON
THE LEFT) ,
A KADI (IN
THE
MIDDLE), A
PASTOR (ON
THE RIGHT).