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Russian national dress for peasant women
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sarafan
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A sarafan (, from Persian sarāрā ) is a long, trapezoidal traditional Russian jumper dress ( pinafore ) worn as Russian folk costume by women and girls. Chronicles first mention it under the year 1376, and since that time it was worn until well into the ...
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Possibly it was because they were ordinary Russian girls in the presence of their next-to-Almighty, or possibly it was because they were embarrassed that their dinner dresses were not luxuriant gowns but common holiday-wear sarafan frocks.
Novgorod fashion, in a heavily-embroidered and braided sarafan, but the garment was so stiff and heavy that she decided to wear such things only for going to church, appearing in public and dining in state.