Tiki Central / General Tiki / Dreaded Fez . . .became Tiki how?
Post #756553 by whorton on Tue, Dec 29, 2015 5:11 PM
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Queston for the Tiki sanhedrin. .. In popular Tiki culture, we hold the Fez out as being a personificaiton of Tiki. . Yet, the history of the Fez dates to the Ottoman empire. Approximatly 1830, Sultan Mahmet II ordered civil officials to wear the fez and at the same time, banned Turbans. Apparently the act had a basis in Sumpturary laws, which allowed turbans to belay social status. WHile, "Initially a symbol of Ottoman modernity, the fez over time came to be seen as a part of an Oriental cultural identity. Seen as exotic and romantic in the west, it enjoyed a vogue as part of mens smoking outfit in the United States and the UK in the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century. . ."(1) Anyone shed any more light on the subject? Casual observation these days, would seem to be that a hat associated with muslim culture of the Ottoman era would not seem to hold with the contemporary values of tiki culture. An interesting hypothesis.
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