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Wedding costumes
The wedding costume differed relatively little from the maiden's and young woman's festive clothes. Folk tradition did not require special wedding costumes. A peasant woman wore festive or new clothes appropriate to the season for the wedding ceremony. But regardless of the season she wore a fur coat with the fur on the inside and silk or other colored fabric on the outside.
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Bridegroom's Garment
Mid-late 19th century,
Semipalatinsk Province
Rubashka, trousers, sash, leather boots,
EM
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Woman's Wedding Costume
Late 19 th – early 20 th century
Ryazan’ Province
Wool, linen, cotton threads; weaving, embroidery
SPM
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Fur headdresses, leather boots with buttons or shoe-laces, and fur mittens covered with colored broadcloth or silk sometimes embroidered with golden threads or cut mother-of-pearl were also worn. According to folk beliefs, fur increased fertility, so for the wedding night the young couple arranged a fur coat in the cowshed as their bed.
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