Wedding of Therese Harb and Elias Giacaman, c.1955

Most suits were single-breasted with long, wide lapels, and fastened up the front with two or three buttons sitting low, exposing a long necktie. One man in the second photo wears a tarbush, a close fitting cone shaped hat often made from felt. This style of hat emerged during the late Ottoman period in Eastern-Mediterranean regions and was usually worn by Muslim men.

The tarbush continued to be worn into the twentieth century. These images are part of the George Harb Photos collection, within the George Harb project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.