БЪЛГАРИЯ В КРАЯ НА XIX ВЕК: МНОГООБРАЗИЕ В ЕЗИКА – МНОГООБРАЗИЕ В ОБЛЕКЛОТО
BULGARIA AT THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY: VARIETY IN LANGUAGE – VARIETY IN CLOTHING

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses an almost unexplored source for the history of Bulgarian culture and language: a corpus of handwritten documents from the end of the 19th century, housed in the Scientific Archives of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The documents provide information on the domestic production of clothing, fabrics and decoration, underwear and outerwear, accessories and jewelry, the cost of clothing and the time needed to produce it, opinions on the quality of home-made clothing and the purchased one. In this paper examples from the descriptions of clothing in Samokov and in Nikopol regions are analyzed in order to show the main points of the description of the clothes of different social, age, religious and local groups in Bulgaria after the liberation from the Ottoman rule.

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