Beards Quotes
Over 200 years later Ataturk, the leader of Turkey, also mandated Western dress. The theory was that by adopting Western dress, other Western modernization would follow. Another benefit is that a populous sees visible change and is therefore more open to additional change and modernization. In the case of Turkey, there was a social hierarchy that was indicated by dress and requiring western dress eliminated these outward and visible signs of rank thus promoting equality. In Russia, it was an earlier time and Peter’s Russians were much more backward than the Turks of over 200 years later.