Faemina Graeca Constantinopolitana, Noua nupta Constantinopolitana, Nobilis puella Alepensis

Engraving, part of 'Habitus variarum orbis gentium' (Costumes of the various peoples of the world), representing the costumes of men and women from various parts of the world, engraved after designs by Boissard and published by Rutz in 1581.

This engraving represents a Greek woman from Constantinople, a Constantinopolitan Bride, and a young lady from Aleppo. On the left, the Greek woman from constantinomple wears a long dress with long puff sleeves and conical skirt, made with a fabric with a pattern of stylized scrolling leaves, under a mantle with wide three-quarter sleeves. A kind of hood made by a headscarf covers her head, also with a pattern of scrolling leaves, and with fringed edges that hang over her shoulders. She wears long pendant pearl earrings and a necklace with a jeweled brooch.

On the center, the Constantinopolitan bride wears a long-sleeved, high-waisted gown with long, conical skirt, and a pattern of lozenges, ovals with pearled crosses, and pearls, possibly embroidered with actual pearls. Over it, she wears a sleeveless mantle with scrolling motifs on the border. From the jeweled waistband of her dress hang two overlapping, pointed, semi-transparent veils, under which she crosses her hands. Her head is crowned with a tiara of Greek scrolls, padded with a fabric of diagonal stripes and with hanging scales that cover her forehead. A headscarf is placed under it, covering the back of her neck and shoulders. She wears pendant earrings and a matching necklace, a double-stranded rope necklace, and a large jeweled brooch on her chest.

On the right, the young lady from Aleppo wears a dress with two layered skirts: the outer skirt is draped and has fringed edges, over an underskirt with a pattern of scrolling leaves. The collar of the dress is made up of a band with scrolling motifs, bordered with pearls. She is wrapped on a kind of shawl, which covers her shoulders and arms, and falls over her dress. Her hair is long and curled, with a long heascarf over it, over her shoulders and back, and with a hat with a jeweled headband, flanked on the front by a palmette.