General Observations, Turkey
Saturday, June 3rd, 2006Some things we’ve observed about Turkey:
Turkish pants – in Antakya we saw men wearing funny pants (people of our generation may remember the fashion trend of Hammer-pants?); they are really baggy pants with the crotch hanging down close to the knees, but the waist is at the waist (not like the young hipsters back home these days who wear the waists around their butts to accomplish a similar effect). I think they remind me a little of pants that genies wear in cartoons. Around Egirdir we saw women (but not men) wearing similar pants, but with even lower crotches, almost halfway down the calf. I would compare them to “gypsie-pants” (though we are eventually heading into actual gypsie country, and I may have to revise my Hollywoodized notions).