@article{2017,title={The Transformation of Women’s Clothing from Constitutionalism (Meshruiyet) to the Republic (Cumhuriyet)},abstractNode={The Ottoman Empire which had a traditional structure, had passed commandments on the topics of what women should be wearing and how they should be behaving outside on the streets. After these commandments, had been put into administration, women had become isolated from society for many years. The women who had experienced this over the course of these years began taking on more active roles in the public domain after the Reformation Period (Tanzimat). Following the Second Constitutionalism (Meshruiyet), Turkish women had begun getting noticed a lot more in several aspects of society. During the Second Constitutionalism, the societal and political changes and transformations of Turkish women as well as the changes and transformations to their dress-code continued throughout the Republican era. At the same time, during this process Turkish women started to become subjects of evaluation as they represented one of the fundamental elements of the Republic’s modernisation project. With women westernization / modernization process, women's adapting themselves to this modernization movement has made a new female identity to emerge from its clothing. So much so that the formation of this new female identity has been an important factor for the country to remain under Western influence. It has been seen over time that the Turkish woman has adopted a more modern style of clothing along with the traditional and monotheistic sheets and at the same time, Women adopted a more modern style of clothing with the Republican era. Besides all these developments, Turkish women have realized the idea of creating a national fashion by experiencing a modernization process suitable for Western fashion in clothes. Women have tried to create an environment in which they can reveal their fertility and hard work with copycat rather than imitation. In the work entitled “The transformation of women’s clothing from Constitutionalism (Meshruiyet) to the Republic (Cumhuriyet)”, within the free environment which arose following the order for Reformation,– especially in the societal fields of evaluation of the change to their clothing, and in connection to this, how Turkish women gained control in this field in light of the changes which took place to Turkish woman’s dress code between the Constituionalism and Republican periods – in addition to an explanation of the types of new roles which were attained by the Turkish women who had lived under the Ottoman Empire and were marginalised for many years, as well as an explanation of how it made an effect on the topic of their dress-codes; a national style was created that was appropriate to Turkish culture during this modernisation process through the announcement of the passing over from the traditional Turkish women’s clothing fashion to a more modern and European clothing fashion after the Reformation Period (Tanzimat) .},author={Edip BUKARLI},year={2017},journal={Journal of Turkish Studies}}