. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . ommon there, of a pair of striped merino socks,thrust into a pair of rubber-soled tennis he wore a second pair of socks, andsaid that in winter he added a third. Above themwas not much bare leg, for the pantaloons are cutthere so as often to reach right down to the is necessitated by the custom of raising themattresses used for seats on divans, and by sittingat table on European chairs with the legs danglingin the cold. The turban has nothing of the grace-fulness of its Moorish counterpart, being often of adirty-green silk tw
. Life in Morocco and glimpses beyond . ommon there, of a pair of striped merino socks,thrust into a pair of rubber-soled tennis he wore a second pair of socks, andsaid that in winter he added a third. Above themwas not much bare leg, for the pantaloons are cutthere so as often to reach right down to the is necessitated by the custom of raising themattresses used for seats on divans, and by sittingat table on European chairs with the legs danglingin the cold. The turban has nothing of the grace-fulness of its Moorish counterpart, being often of adirty-green silk twisted into a rope, and then boundround the head in the most inelegant fashion, some-times showing the head between the coils ; they arenot folds. Heads are by no means kept so care-fully shaved as in Morocco, and I have seen hairwhich looked as though only treated with scissors,and that rarely. The fashion for all connected with the Govern-ment to wear European dress, supplemented by the* Fez (fortunately not the Turkish style), brings. [Ailert, Photo., Tunis. A TUNISIAN IKWhlSS IN STRIKT HKKSS. TUNISIA VIEWED FROM MOROCCO 325 about most absurd anomalies. This is especiallyobservable in the case of the many very stoutindividuals who waddle about like ducks in theirungainly breeches. I was glad to find on visitingthe brother of the late Bey that he retained thecorrect costume, though the younger members ofhis family and all his attendants were in foreignguise. The Bey himself received me in the frock-coat with pleated skirt, favoured by his countrymenthe Turks. The Mohammedan women seen in the streetsgenerally wear an elegant fine silk and wool haikover a costume culminating in a peaked cap, theface being covered—all but the eyes—by two blackhandkerchiefs, awful to behold, like the mask of astage villain. More stylish women wear a largerveil, which they stretch out on either side in frontof them with their hands. They seem to thinknothing of sitting in a railway carriage opp
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