How it used to be dressed
How it used to be dressed
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In the book How People Used to Dress, in the edition for children by ÚĽUV, authored by Rastislava Stoličná, young readers can learn about the appearance of rural and urban clothing and its fundamental differences. The distinction was not only in the appearance of clothing but mainly in the materials and way of wearing them, as a hundred years ago, in many locations in Slovakia, the traditional clothing of the peasantry, consisting of inherited components including head coverings and traditional footwear, still prevailed. The transition from wearing traditional rural attire to urban attire occurred gradually, as men working in factories in large cities gradually began to wear urban clothing. While a hundred years ago, home production of materials from linen, hemp, and wool was still maintained in rural areas, in cities, dresses were sewn from industrially produced fabrics. The publication dedicates a sufficient amount of space to the domestic process of making materials for traditional rural clothing, from the cultivation of linen and hemp, through its processing (harvesting, retting, drying, combing, spinning, and weaving), all the way to its use in the production of various types of clothing: workwear and festive attire. The publication further presents the crafts of the weaver, clothier, furrier, and shoemaker.
Editor: Diana Némethová
Published by the Center for Folk Art Production in Bratislava, a state-subsidized organization established by the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic, in the year 2020.