Suvalkijos tautinis kostiumas pirmaisiais XX a. dešimtmečiais
Suvalkian national costume in the first decades of the 20th century

Summary/Abstract: The history of the Lithuanian national costume began at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th c. Until 1905, its most important place of genesis was Lithuania Minor.However, in the mid 1920s, the Lithuanian national costume clearly began to take on the interpretations of Suvalkija's folk clothing.In the first decades of the 20th c., the ethnographic region of Suvalkija played a very important role in the developmental process of the Lithuanian national costume. Suvalkija's special role was determined by favourable conditions: a rather large amount of old-fashioned clothes still extant in villages, the active participation of this region in the exhibits of the Lithuanian Art Association, the educational activity undertaken by the journal "Šaltinis"."Šaltinis" published many photographs that presented folk and national clothing to the readers. The photographs reflected the further development of the concept of the Lithuanian national costume and rather purposefully formed the readers' outlook and taste.The Suvalkian national costume variant crossed its own boundaries in the 1920s and became popular in the larger part of Lithuania.

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