Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Turkish Iron Age style back in fashion

"Turkish Iron Age style back in fashion

Women in Turkey have been returning to 2,500-year-old fashions, as bracelets, earrings and other accessories styled after pieces in the Iron Age section of the Antalya Archeology Museum grow more popular by the day. Sales of imitation combs, bracelets and pinky rings based on pieces found in Kinet, a port city founded in sixth or fifth century BCE, have been soaring in the city of Dörtyol in the southeastern province of Hatay, local shopkeepers say."

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