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There are lots of scrolls of linen cloth in the wardrobe trunk. And imagine yourself, how difficult it was to produce this material. It was necessary to rub, to spin, to weave and to sheaf it.

Nowadays, people don ̓ t weave linen cloth, they keep care of it. The linen cloth is healthy material , and it is recommended to wear it in hot days. Many years ago women sewed linen clothes, dyed it and decorated it with embroideries.

In the wardrobe trunk you could find/see the most valuable and important clothes for a man: the first nappies, a wedding costume, clothes for a holiday occasion (such as blouses, woollen skirts, aprons, headscarves), and of course, clothes for a rainy day.

And now, we are going to see what we have got in our wardrobe trunk. Look! A wedding dress, which is made of white staple, by Pochebyt Veroy Alexandrovnoy. There are some blue forget-me-nots on this dress. The dress is simple, but with good taste.

Today, we wear artificial or synthetic clothes, but early people used to wear only natural clothes.

Earlye very lady of the house had some aprons and headscarves. Headscarves were obligatory for women: light-coloured headscarves for religious feasts/holiday, dark-coloured scarves - on weekdays.

Headscarves are scarves covering most or all of the top of a woman's hair and her head, leaving the face uncovered. A headscarf is formed of a triangular or square cloth folded into a triangle piece of fabric, with which the head is covered.

Headscarves may be worn for a variety of purposes. Some form of cover for the hair was regarded as appropriate for married women in most European cultures, to agree with contemporary notions of modesty and as an indication of marriage status.

To some extent, the covering of the head depend on where the woman was; indoors and at home it was less worn, but it was usual outside and formal occasions, especially for a wedding occasion. At the wedding, the headscarf was a symbol of agreement/consent, unification/consolidation. In agreement, (marital consent ) a bride gave to a bridegroom two headscarves: the first headscarf she tied round the bridegroom ̓ s neck, the second one- she put behind his back.

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