Fez (clothing) facts for kids
The fez (Turkish: fes, plural fezzes or fezes from arabic "Fas" the main town in Marocco before 1927 ), as well as its equivalent, the tarboosh (Arabic: طربوش ṭarbūsh), is a felt hat.
There are two types One is a cone with a flat top, made of red felt. The other is a short cylinder made of kilim fabric. Both usually have a tassel attached to the top. The tarboosh and the modern fez, which is similar, owe much of their development and popularity to the Ottoman era.
Images for kids
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A fez
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Portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II after his clothing reforms
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Ottoman soldiers wearing Fezzes during the Greco-Turkish War (1897)
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King Mohammed VI of Morocco meets John Kerry and Dwight Bush while wearing a fez hat
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David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi as law students in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, wearing fezzes, c. 1914
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Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood wearing a fez hat.
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Ottoman Soldier during the Battle of Domokos by Fausto Zonaro.
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Otto of Greece in an Evzones uniform.
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Serbian voivode Stevan Knićanin, 1849
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French Zouave during the Crimean War (1853–1856).
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Bosniak Soldiers of the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1943). Their fezzes were decorated on the front with Hoheitszeichen (eagle and Swastika) and the SS Totenkopf (skull and crossbones).
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Mahmood Ali, Indian politician and Deputy Chief Minister of Telangana state wearing a fez
See also
In Spanish: Fez (sombrero) para niños
