TURKISH BEAUTY.
OVERDRAPED OR UNDER? LONDON, April 4. While Western fashionable women are adopting Eastern modes a la Tu tankhamen, Keinal Pasha, the Turkish leader, is pursuing a campaign to impress Western ideas ot dress on lurkish women, says the London • Daily Mail.” In a speech at Konia he drew attention to the extremes shown in large towns. Turkish women in some cases wore the black dress and veil, covering every part of the wearer except the hands and feet. This is the traditional attire. Other women sometimes carried Western dress to an excess which would not lie tolerated in European ballTiie .Moslem religion, fie pointed out. requirements with those cf virtue. If 1 urkish women obeyed his injunctions they would not veil so heavily nor display their poisons too freely!
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 8
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131TURKISH BEAUTY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17017, 16 April 1923, Page 8
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