The history of the origin of the Tatar national costume originates from the middle of the XVIII century, but the outfit that came to our days was formed later, approximately in the XIX century. The Volga Tatars and the traditions of the peoples of the East influenced the Tatar outfit. Since Tatar women from a small age were trained in sewing, embroidering, then making clothes, they invested in it all their skill, patience and, as a result, they turned out very beautiful and feminine costumes.
In medieval times, a traditional dress of women was a dress, a hat and characteristic footwear. Regardless of the status, clothes in many respects coincided, but the differences, be it clan, social or clan, were expressed only in the tissues used, their price, the abundance of decorative elements and the amount of clothing worn. Clothes that were created for centuries, looked not just beautiful, but elegant, and this is thanks to jewelry, exquisite decoration and traditional embroidery.
Description of the Tatar women's folk costume
The female costume consists of a long tunic shirt with long sleeves and a long swinging outer garment with a solid skeleton. Bottoms of shirt and sleeves were decorated with flounces. An indication of nationality is monumentality, and in women it manifested itself in massive ornaments that were everywhere: on the chest, on the hands, on the ears.
Women wore a shirt over their shirts or a camisole that came from colored or monochrome velvet, and the sides and bottom of the jacket were decorated with gold braid or fur.
The main element of the national costume was the headdress. By the headdress, it was possible to determine the age of the woman, as well as her social and marital status. The unmarried girls wore white calfs, and they all were the same. At married ladies the headdresses differed on clans. Women on top of the calf necessarily put on handkerchiefs, shawls or bedspreads.
By the way, kalfaks were also different. Some of them resembled a tubtub, also decorated and embroidered with gold threads, the other had a ragged pointed end, to which was attached a fringe of gold thread hanging slightly forward to the face.
The history of the creation of the Tatar national costume has gone a long way, but despite this traditions of this people have survived to this day, and although modern society wears more European clothes, from time to time on holidays women and men dress up in their traditional costumes and recall their history people.
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