# Mangas

Manges (; Greek: μάγκες [ˈma(ɲ)ɟes]; sing.: Mangas , μάγκας [ˈma(ŋ)ɡas]) is the name of a social group in the Belle Époque era's counterculture of Greece (especially of the great urban centers of Athens and Piraeus). The nearest English equivalent to the term "Mangas" is wide boy, or spiv. == Overview == Mangas was a label for men belonging to the Greek working class, behaving in a particularly arrogant/presumptuous way, and dressing with a very typical vesture composed of a woolen hat (kavouraki, καβουράκι), a jacket (they usually wore only one of its sleeves), a tight belt (used as a knife case), stripe pants, and pointy shoes.