The British diplomat and traveler Alexander Borns noted that their clothes differ little from men's: "They wear exactly the same fur coats, and the only difference in attire is that they do not wear sleeves, but tie them behind; they wear, even in their rooms, high boots made of velvet, with rich decorations". The appearance of the Bukhara women's costume, more than in other regions, was determined by sharia norms, according to which clothing should not emphasize the shape of the figure.
Bukhara women used fabrics of bright colors, decorated themselves with jewelry, lined their eyebrows and blackened their eyes, bleached and blushed. A. Borns noticed that women in Bukhara paint their teeth with black paint, braid their hair and let their braids down over their shoulders.
You will find more national Uzbek costumes in the book-album "Traditional uzbek costume on materials of museum and private collections of Uzbekistans (Part 1)" (volume XLVIII) from the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the world collections ".
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