Turbans Gallery

London Life front cover with Paris fashions

Front cover of the impossibly groovy London Life magazine which ran for just two years between 1965 and 1966 but chronicled the life and times of swinging sixties London, showing two bright geometric dresses with matching head scarves or turbans from the Paris collections of that year. Designer unattributed but possibly Pierre Cardin?

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Dogs as Riffians during Melillan Campaign

During the Mellilan campaign in Morocco where Spanish troops fought against local Riffian forces, the Riffians dressed up dogs in turbans and burnous and sent them out from point to point in front of the Spanish soldiers. From a distance, the dogs looked very like a man crawling along the ground and tended to draw fire during which time, the Riffians were able to take advantage and shoot at the Spanish. Scenes witnessed by the famous dog trainer Major Edwin Richardson who travelled to the seat of war with an ambulance dog. He described what he had seen to the ILN special artist, H. W. Koekkoek. Date: 1909

© Mary Evans Picture Library

Mohmand Hill Tribe, North West Frontier Province

Mohmand Hill Tribe (a Pashtun tribe), marching with flags, North West Frontier Province, British India, near the border with Afghanistan. Date: circa 1920

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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