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MOSLEM WOMEN IN NATIVE DRESS
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While wives of pashas and other women of the upper class in Cairo may be
seen wearing the transparent gauze yashmak of Constantinople, and others
keep to the white opaque veil of Egypt, their humbler sisters usually
wear the black face veil with a head veil of tarhah of dark blue muslin
or linen
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HOW THE FACE VEIL IS WORN
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The Egyptian woman's face veil, or burko, of the commoner type is made
of a kind of coarse black crape which a little gilt cylinder keeps from
nose and mouth
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