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This is for *yato-girl for the 26,000 pageview (kinda). :XD:

Turkey was a real challenge to draw (a few false starts), because as Himaruya says... he's just too cool. '_' anything short of amazing would just be inappropriate.

I went looking for some traditional gear but turns out this outfit is ACTUALLY from Ukranian Cossacks whose clothes were INFLUENCED by the Ottoman Turks. But it was cool, so it stayed. :XD:
A bit from the linked page: "The war hammer was a formidable weapon against armour and mail and was also used by the nobility as a walking stick until it was forbidden by the law for obvious reasons."

The Cossacks were Turkey-level badasses...

He was originally maskless... tell me if you'd prefer that.
4 - 5 hours D: - SAI

[link] <-- ref, heavily referenced :>

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AtreJane's avatar
Well..As I see Imperialistic Prolahanda still in Use..
But your art made me to look my books and search for this info..... And you know...
I search several books about outfit of Cossacks to find the influence from Turkey.. and all I found it is the post-USSR article that is full of historical lie and soviet shit not only about outfit and events...
So..what I discovered:
Procopius of Caesarea ( Byzantine scholar) wrote in his chronik "War with Gothes" of 6 century:
"These tribes, these slavs, entering into war, attack with weapon in the hands, they have never woren armour. Some of them do not wear shirts, cloak, only wide pants tightened by wide belt on the hips...And with this look they attack the enemy..."
The same look had Cossacks in middleage.
Also...Sharowars (wide pants), that were woren by Cossacks, were remembered in the chronics of arabic traveller Ahmad ibn Fadlān who travelled through the Rus in 922, when he was sent to serve as the secretary to an ambassador in Bulgaria:
..." I was informed about the death of one rich Rusin. ...Than they (people ) wore on him wide pants, legwarmers, shoes, caftan with golden buttens, wore on him sable hat and carry him.."
So as we see wide pants, belts were before Turkish tribes came...
In the book of Kuryłło Teofil ( in the book about outfit of XVII century) there is nothing about influence of Turkey also. Teofil write about clothes of Ukrainian cossacks: "They wear red shoes and ebroidered shirt..." it is typical clothes of Rus times...Embroidering was as protection of warriors...
In the Book "History of Ukraine-Rus" Nikola Arkas wrote that Cossacks wore tradition Rus clothes shirts, wide pants were only in the Central Ukraine, other Cossacks wore normal pants, the belt was as symbol of status.. as more wide belt as more rich Cossack..
Scientist Michail Chuguenko in his book "Shoking Ukraine" writes:
"Some Ukrainian cossacks fought without shirts, only the wolf's or bear's fell protect their breast and in the pants... All body was covered by black and red tatoo..."
Interesting fact that the same was written by Ahmad ibn Fadlān in 922 in his chronicks:
" some Rus warriors were painted into the tatoo...."

I believe more that the Turikish influence was on Polish Clothes..Because Ottoman Empire had influence on the European Part - Greece, Bulgaria etc... and the fashion of Noble Outfit could be taken by leading countries...
Because our Cossacks wear clothes similar to noble clothes of Polish Nobility... It was as protest to show to Polish Seym and Nobility that Ukrainian ordinary people are not different and can wear the similar clothes.