Традиционната женска мървашка носия от края па XIX и началото на XX в. (По материали от бежанци в Пазарджишко)
The Traditional Mruvak Costume Worn by Women at the Turn of the 19th and 20ih Centuries

Summary/Abstract: This study offers a possibility of specifying the boundaries within which the typical Mruvak women's garments were to be found at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and also that of defining them more fully. On the basis of personal studies on the terrain and of published literature on the question the authoress proves that the women's costume worn in the Mruvak ("Nevrokop-Seres") region was spread over the hill and mountain villages of the Nevrokop, Seres, Drama and Melnik regions, where the main occupation of the population up to the 70s of the 19th century was the mining of iron ore. The components of the local women's folk costume are described in detail end the connection of this costume with concrete socio-economic condition is emphasized. The authoress describes the new phenomena in the women's costume of the Mruvak region and indicates that they did not lead to qualitative changes in the cut of the garments, but successfully adapted to it. This ethnographic study proves that the inner contradictions, characteristic of folk clothing in Bulgaria, were also to be hund in the traditional women's Mruvak costume, and the Slav foundation of the components is also apparent. The conclusion is finally drawn that the traditional women's Mruvak costume at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries bears the typical features of one of the basic types of Bulgarian women's costumes, the saya type (saya-a sleeveless overdress open down the front).

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