The Shriners are perhaps most known among Masons and the general public for the bright fezzes that they wear and for their charity work. |
They might include Tut arms or I-surrender back bends, but for the most part the Orientalism was a matter of the plot — slave auctions, mummies come to life — and of the sets and costumes: cute little fezzes and the like. |
Men wearing what look like long striped nightshirts glare at you suspiciously, beggars and flies harry you, dogs and chickens chase between your legs, big bearded fellows in fezzes proffer their merchandise. |
Turbans and chimney-pots salaam to each other, and fezzes nod to straw hats and wide-awakes. |
And in true comic style, all members of the four-a-side teams wore the obligatory fezzes during play. |
You sit on divans at low tables, as waiters in fezzes and djellebas produce dishes like magicians from velvet tagine-shaped platters. |