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