fez

The V&A museum in London has lent 28 items including Tommy Cooper's trademark fez and other props, and Sooty and Sweep puppets from the classic children's show.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024

We have photos of my male ancestors wearing the fez and the Ottoman military uniform, but women were rarely photographed.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024

Capped with a fez, speaking some sort of French patois, Mitchell brings his own campy aura to the movie, including the portentous punchline: “Choice is a Western concept.”

From New York Times ● May 24, 2023

He’s the one wearing the Ottoman-style fez, recounting a tale from his recent trip to Constantinople with Rorbye.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023

Nuah poses for Muhammad, his hands resting on the hilt, sword pointing down, the fez sitting precariously on his hair.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

During the American Civil War, swashbuckling soldiers known as “Zouaves” wore Turkish-style fezes with flowing tassels.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2012

They wore the fezes and kilts of the modern Greek.

From Buried Cities, Volume 3 Mycenae by Jennie Hall

There were no Turks in red fezes squatting in the dust, hunting among their rags for fleas, and there were no more slender peasants in tight white-wool trousers and beautiful embroidered shirts.

From Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 by Ruth Pierce

All four were dressed in stiff Hungarian dolmans, long black pantaloons, and red fezes.

From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai

A couple of Egyptian native police in khaki drill, brown belts, side-arms, red fezes, and carrying canes, both smoking cigarettes, swaggered up and down in front of an arc-light.

From At Suvla Bay Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war. by John Hargrave

The Shriners would become known for their philanthropy — funding children’s hospitals — but they would also be known for their zanier side: donning fezzes and zipping around in tiny cars.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023

He’s saved a few fancy outfits and fezzes that Guy used to wear during solo and band jobs at restaurants such as Haji Baba’s in Inglewood and Arabian Nights in Fresno.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2021

“I’m pretty sure slide whistles are going to take off,” he adds, sounding a bit like Doctor Who trying to convince Amy Pond that fezzes are cool.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2017

Millions of rubber trees stood in martial rows, their catchment buckets resembling red fezzes.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 14, 2016

A little later, the hearse and limousines encountered a line of motorcycles and my mother noticed that the drivers were all wearing fezzes.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides