Do you know how the robes of Tashkent, the Valley and the Oases differed?

It is a kind of encyclopedia of folk life, which one should be able to interpret. National clothes always differ in traditionality.

In the cutting of robes, several independent local types were distinguished: Bukhara-Samarkand, Khorezm, Fergana-Tashkent. Robes differed in appearance. For men, it was a cotton quilted tun or chopon; robes without stitches – yachtak or avr tun and chakmon from homespun camel or sheep cloth, on a warm lining. People worn chuckmon in winter, over a quilted cotton robe; it was much wider and more spacious than the latter. Robes were sewn from local and imported fabrics: paper or semi-silk alachi and bekasama. 

Much attention was paid to the colour of the strips, their combination and width. In Tashkent, for example, soft green and black colours prevailed; residents of such Fergana towns as Margilan and Kokand preferred yellow in combination with purple and pink; in Khorezm the coloring of red tones in a shallow strip was predominant; in Bukhara and Samarkand, men’s robes were sewn from bright and colorful silk.

You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "The Collection of the State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan" (Part 2, Volume XXVII) in the series "Сultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections". 

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