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Museum
of Greek Folk Art.
Female
bridal costume from Drimos, near Salonika (19th c. - early
20th c). Detail of the headdress with hand-woven hair tube
(sokai).
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Jewish Museum of Greece.
Salonica's Sephardic women's costume (19th c.): head-dress
(kofya) consisting of a cap, ribbons, jewellery pieces and
the silk hair tube.
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The
Sephardic Jewesses, who arrived in Salonica from Spain in the 16th
c., continued to wear, until about 1940, their traditional headdress,
the kofya, featuring a silk hair tube. In the Greek territory the
only parallel is the sokai, a hair tube made of cheap material,
from Drimos and Melissohori, villages situated 12 km. northern of
Salonika. The kofya's influence in the nearby rural district is
possibly owed to the regions' proximity and the impressive appearance
and practicality of this headdress.
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