It was richly decorated with turquoise and coral in convex frames and engraved of floral ornaments. Together with tobelik decoration the saukele looked unusually luxurious. Woman wore a tobelik only with saukele, while for girls a tobelik was a festive dress.
You will find more examples of national Uzbek clothes in the book-album "Traditional Uzbek costume on materials of museum and private collections of Uzbekistan (Part 2)" (volume XLIX) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections".
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