In the latter half of the 19th century, the saukele was the main ritual of wedding dress. With the birth of the first child the woman wore a headdress of a married woman, which was not taken off up to the old age. It consisted of two parts: the lower (kiymeshek), worn on the head, and the upper – in the form of turban, wound over the kiymeshek.
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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