Rich people and merchants were girded with belts from colored threads with sewn gold or silver plaques, or leather belts decorated with colored stones, to which purses, knives, bags, etc. were hung on special straps.
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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