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«Visions of Azerbaijan».-2009.-№4.-S.86-96. Life in Karabakh in the Late 19th & Early 20th Centuries By Dr Hasan Quliyev & Acad. Teymur Bunyadov Traditionally Karabakh women were known for their colourful clothing and multi-layered skirts - they would wear eight to 10 skirts at once - while men's clothes were less varied. The Karabakh diet was seasonal and closely linked to the agri cultural year. In their sec ond article for Visions of Azerbaijan magazine, Dr Hasan Quliyev and Academician Teymur Bunyatov look in more detail at the clothing, cui sine, family traditions and festivals of Karabakh in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. CLOTHES AND FASHION The traditional clothes of Karabakh (can be divided into categories: men's (cloaks, shirts and tunics and undergar ments), women's (under and outer clothing), belts, professional clothing, ceremonial clothing (wedding, mourning, festive), children's clothes, headgear, shoes and accessories. Clothes were made from local and imported textiles. The imported textiles came from Russia, Persia, Europe and elsewhere. The choice of textiles 'increased noticeably in the second half of the 19th century. Red calico, velvet, atlas silk and silk were used, as were cheaper textiles such as chintz (chit), coarse fabric (agh mitqal) and madapollam cotton (humayun aghi). The cheaper fabrics were accessible to all strata of the population. Karabakh women's clothes were noted for their colourfulness, complexi ty and variety. Women wore tunic-like blouses, an underskirt (dizlik) and skirt or dress, known as arkhaliq, kurdu and pullu chapkan or zibini. The arkhaliq (from the word arkha meaning 'back') is worth special atten tion; it was sewn from brocade (zerkhara), velvet, atlas silk, sateen or other textiles of various colours.
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