Overview
Under the Ottoman Empire, Turkish styles entered urban dress while the villages kept their own folk costume.
Key garments and style
Men wore the white pleated fustanella skirt, an embroidered vest and a jacket; women wore richly embroidered regional dress (the foustani, the karagouna and others). Region and rank showed in the dress.
Transition
Through the War of Independence begun in 1821, these folk costumes became national symbols of the new Greece.