We are in the twenty-first century, where everyone has a style and taste. It is impossible to evaluate it, because dressing up is also a part of some art, and art has infinity. That is why I decided to present the clothes of old women.
The dress of the Armenians reflects a rich cultural tradition. Wool and fur were utilized by the Armenians and later cotton that was grown in the fertile valleys. Silk imported from China was used by royalty, during the Urartian period. Later the Armenians cultivated silkworms and produced their own silk.Armenian national clothes, having passed through centuries of development, already at the beginning of the XIX century was a stable complex.The basis of women’s clothing, as well as the men’s, consisted of a shirt and lower pants, which had much in common in their cut. In Eastern Armenia, women wore a long red shirt – a halove made of cotton fabric with oblique wedges on the sides, long straight sleeves with a gusset, and a straight cut gate. In the cut, like a man’s shirt, hawal also had two varieties. The older one – a one-piece with a straight topline shoulder – was worn by all women until the 1930swithout taking into account age and property status. A later version – with a shoulder seam and an embossed armhole – spread at the beginning of the last century with the penetration of factory fabrics into the village. This shirt was worn mainly by girls and young women. Long underwear pants were sewn from the same red material as the shirt, on a white lining and at the waist held on to an upholstery with the help of hondzhana.
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