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National costume
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The belt was an obligatory accessory of the Tatar man costume. It was used for girding outer clothing. For the rich the belt served as a kind of thing to show off. It was made of expensive coloured silk and embellished with gold or silver fringe. Men headdress, as well as other articles of clothing was divided into home and public clothing. Tubeteika was home headdress of semispherical shape. It was sewed from cloth and embroidered with silk, gold and silver thread, beads and spangles.
Footwear was an obligatory detail of a costume (everyday and holiday).
First of wall it was stockings, with their great variety in shape and material they were made of. According to the material foot wear could be divided into leather, bast and felted footwear. Leather footwear was seen more often though groups of different outcome used it differently.
Making leather footwear as well as making headdress has been the business of craftsmen for a long time. According to the quality (hardness) of the sole footwear is divided into two types: 1) with soft sole; 2) with hard sole.
The first type includes ichigi - boots of soft, one-coloured, mostly black leather (yuft, morocco). When going out of the house people put on leather footwear with hard sole over ichigi, in winter they put on short valenki. People consider it to be traditional national footwear.
Boots were leather footwear with long bootlegs and hard sole. At the end of 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century there were only isolated instances of spreading of this traditional type of leather foot wear in Ural regions. The boots of Russian type were known among mishars of the Oksa-Sura region and the baptized Tatars for quite a long time.
Leather footwear without the back was called 'bashmak'. It was also sewed from yuft or tawing leather, it had hard sole and used in summer to leave the house for a short period of time. The city elite ordered bashmaks from morocco, sometimes with soft sole to wear them inside the house.
Bast footwear was widely spread in the Volga-Ural region. It was made from linden bast. This kind of footwear was mostly spread among rural population as a light and comfortable kind of foot wear to work in the field.
Felted footwear as well as leather one had two varieties: with short bootlegs and with long ones. In the middle of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century both types of felted footwear (as winter footwear) could be found everywhere. Young and middle-aged men preferred felted footwear with the long bootlegs. This type of valenki and tulup were preferred when traveling. In the beginning of the 20th century the city rich people, especially merchants, sometimes wore patterned valenki.<<back Pages: 1 2 3
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