Unidentified Man Posed Wearing Khalat in Uzbekistan

Unidentified exterior view of a man dressed in a khalat, the traditional garb worn in Uzbekistan. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." Although not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip. While on this trip and in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, Thayer wrote in his diary: "Every now and then, when an old man heard the click of my shutter, he turned and scowled angrily. Only the hotel coal-and-water-carrier agreed to pose in his long blue khalat."