EMBODIMENT OF RICH HISTORY AND GRACE OF THE UZBEK WOMEN'S CLOTHING

Abstract

Article describes characteristics of national clothes of women of Bukhara in XIX century, symbolic and practical features of these clothes, and their importance in learning history of the region. The clothes of the people of Central Asia have centuries‐old history. Invaluable data on clothes of ourancestors are reported to us by archeological findings. All this helps to reveal sources of national clothes,beginning from headdresses and finishing with footwear and jewelry. National clothes reflect character ofnation, and Uzbeks are not an exception here. Consciousness, outlook and originality are reflected in it as inmirror. It is easy to determine by a raditional Uzbek suit, what our ancestors thought and dreamed of, inwhat they trusted and what feared them. After all, the originality and identity of that time is in it.The highest form of city craftsmanship was observed in gold‐sewing‐decorated clothes of the Bukhara emirand nobility. Gold sewed dressing gowns which the masters presented to the confidants were mostwidespread, and they willingly received similar gifts themselves. The embroidery was executed by gold onsilk and velvet, and the ornament of sewing was almost entirely natural, rarely ‐ geometrical. It should benoted that gold‐sewing art in Bukhara in old times was exclusively man's business and generally with thegold thread were embroidered not only dressing gowns, but also skullcaps and footwear. Belts on smart clothes‐ velvet or embroidered with silver pattern metal plates and buckles were especially elegant.Perhaps, the most ancient traditional clothes of Uzbek female it dresses kuylak and wide trousers ‐lozim.