Post on 17-Jul-2015
Dzūkija traditional clothes
Eglė Sakalauskaitė, Inesa Kontrimaitė, Emilija Šiaulytė, Laura Garbonytė
Gedminai progymnasium
2014
Clothes
Dzūkų traditional clothes more variegated, more colorful than the other regions.
Dzūkijos women's clothing consisted of shirt, skirt, apron, vest, belt, and headdress (braid
crown tucker or scarf) and footwear.
Headgear
Dzūkių head cover depends on the woman's age and the time of year. Girls
head was decorated with live flowers, ruths, wearing crowns decorated with beads and
knitwear.
Tucker
Tucker - head scarf headband, cap.
Dzūkių tuckers were woven from natural color or white linen. Tucker dzūkės not knitted or
crocheted hooks and knitting needles as the other women in
the region. They decorated forehead flap.
Forehead flap
Forehead flap was made of discontinuous and folded canvas strips
mostly white and red. In order to use and a collection of strips. The strip
between the generations fringe, sew wool, amber, pearl and coral beads.
Forehead flap sometimes sew and bent at an angle to the scarves.
Winter shawls and wraps
The wool and wove linen dzukės headscarves. Then they did the store-
bought cotton. I stitched in white thread, different letters of two opposite
corners. Such wore headscarves one Sunday from one angle to the top of
the other - the other.
On cold winter to wear a headscarf. They were two colors of wool yarn,
small plaid. Subsequent periods shawls detailed checkered brighter streaks, or
use them to decorate the ends.
Skirts
Most checkered, wool and linen.
Typical colors: green, purple, burgundy, blue, yellow. Some
areas Dzūkijos white linen or wool with
pressed to find skirts.
Bodice
Daily dzūkių bodice sewn from linen or union cloth and Closed - union cloth or wool. The
most typical dzūkių cut jackets - from the waist with loose front diverge tails.
Apron
Dzūkių aprons were transverse striping and woven plaid. Red and white or blue and white linen. XIX
century. Spread embroidered aprons, embroidered at the bottom of a dark transverse filaments or multicolored silk thread flowers and leaves.
Dzūkijoje aprons remained significantly longer than in other
ethnographic areas.
Dzūkų menswear
Dzūkų menswear colored but modest. On the head - tufted or mushroom cap. Shirts
canvas, the cuffs, chest and sling-decorated with red letters.
Pants - canvas of various shades,
plaid detail. Bottom trousers dawn
darker and nested in variegated socks. Crocheted string of colored shoes, and
then stitched leather sole.
Sermėga
The most important changes of the garment was a man sermėga. XIX century at the
end it was replaced by a short jacket. And sermėga and
jackets in Dzūkija were made of unpainted milo, decorated
with ornaments decorative stitches, velvet piping, other tissue elements. There were
embroidered shirts or white in color - this custom came from
Russia.
The most important part of the costume
Dzūkija very important for women and men in costume - belt. Severe upper garments for
men goes for women suit is usually narrower, traditional ornaments printed with old band
was the first little girl in each tissue.
Dzūkų shoes
Women, as elsewhere, the coveted shoes. Without their input and wore footwear – toeshoes or thick linen knitted champs. Men wore boots or inferior home-wear.
Information sources
http://www.delfi.lt/gyvenimas/stilius/viskas-apie-lietuviu-tautini-kostiuma-nuotrauku-albumas.d?id=9954611
http://www.grazitumano.lt/wiki/index.php/Dz%C5%ABkija:_tautiniai_drabu%C5%BEiai
http://www.slideshare.net/sauliux/dzk-tautiniai-rbai
http://www.virsuliskiu.vilnius.lm.lt/M9.htm