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Fazila Derya Agis, University of the People
This study analyzes the types of clothes oversize women wear and the sociological reasons for which they wear these clothes during pandemics in a Turkish contemporary TV competition show titled “Doya Doya Moda” [“Fashion, By Being Full Up”] (2019-2021) from a symbolic interactionist perspective (Blumer, 1969) and describes how these women, staying in the same villa during pandemics, follow Atatürk’s way and observe his reforms as modern women. In 1925, Atatürk made the “Hat and Clothing Reform” by declaring that modern hats and clothes would be worn by Turkish people instead of Ottoman fezzes, imamahs, and veils. The data of this study consists of the 20 (twenty) episodes of the show chosen in accordance with their themes representative of the other parts of the whole seasonal competition show such as imitating an actress, organizing a business meeting, opening an art exhibition, meeting prospective husbands’ parents for the first time, matching contrasting colors, et cetera. The aim of the study is to demonstrate that the clothes worn in the program are aligned with Atatürk’s reforms for Turkish secular women and promote women’s rights to work, to select their own life companions, and to be paid equally regardless of their body shapes without being forced to be skinny. The TV program is related to Atatürk’s reforms on the rights of women to work with equal hours and pays to those of men (1923), to select their own husbands, to receive the same amount of heritage as men can do, to study, and to earn degrees after the acceptance of the Turkish Civil Code (1926). Contestants underline the equality of women and men even during the Covid-19 pandemics, showing how women obey hygiene rules and protect their rights at the same time via what they wear through symbols.
Presented in Session 45. Women's Movement
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