Типове народни костюми в Софийско в архивен документ от 1889 г. 1. Самоковска и Софийска околия
Types of Folk Costumes from the Region of Sofia Found in an Archival Document from 1889. 1. Samokov and Sofia Districts

Summary/Abstract: The Scientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences possesses a little known massive of handwritten documents from the end of the 19th century. These documentsare reports of the Regional Governors to the Minister of the Interior that containdata about the folk costumes of the different population groups in the respectiveregions. The present article analyses the report by the Governor of the Region ofSofia. This document describes the particular types of male and female costumestypical for the different settlements in all the districts of the region. The total lack ofresearch on clothing at that time provokes the author’s interest to discover the reasonslying behind the typologization of the folk costumes in Sofia region. Comparingand analysing the information about the costumes (the elements out of which theywere made; the materials used; the ways of decoration etc.), the author outlines thedifferential markers which provided the reasoning for the typologization. The articleconsists of two parts. The first, which is published in this issue of the journal, analysesthe descriptions of the costumes in Samokov and Sofia districts. The second part willexplore the districts of Zlatitsa, Novoseltsi (Elin Pelin) and Iskrets.

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