It's hard to imagine a Russian folk costume without a shirt. For many centuries in Russia, the shirt was considered the main subject of our ancestors' wardrobe. So called the underwear. The Russian folk shirt in olden times was revered and endowed with its special forces, with this element many signs and guessings are connected. At Christmas time, Russian beauty with the help of their shirts tried to find out if they were dreaming of happiness in love in the coming year, people thought that damaging the shirt could lead to illness and failure, and the wedding shirt carried the power of healing.
Women's Russian folk shirts
Peasant women, like their contemporaries, aspired to beauty, the shirts of past centuries were jewelry decorated with embroideries and were more like a work of art. Shirts were divided into everyday, festive and ceremonial. Shirts, designed for special occasions, sewed from quality materials and lavishly decorated with embroideries, and everyday looked much more modest.
The bride wore a wedding attire, the set of which necessarily included a shirt, called dolgolkavka. Holiday shirts sewed with a wide sleeve, it was considered very fashionable. Shirts in the Russian folk style were made both from composite pieces of cloth, and from solid ones. An archaic dress-shirt in the Russian style is one of the most ancient, many people used it as a tunic, it was used for a long time in a cut for women's sarafans. Most often there were shirts with poliki. Poliki or gussets are insets on the shoulders, they made the neck of the shirt wider and combined in front and back of the shirt. Later, the relevance of the poliki fell into oblivion, and peasant women began sewing silkless shirts that were customarily worn under the sarafan. Shirts in Russian style are fashionable to this day, they can be found on any fashion week, both in Paris and in New York.
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