TRADITIONAL FOLK DRESS IN THE FOLKLORE OF TRANSCARPATHIA

Abstract

The article on the basis of available literature, archival and ethnographic data conducted a comprehensive analysis of folklore material, which glorifies the components of traditional folk women's and men's clothing of Transcarpathia. The study of the ritual role of clothing, its place in folklore is one of the priorities of modern ethnographers, local historians This issue is insufficiently studied and requires further research. The work is interdisciplinary, as it is written at the intersection of ethnography, folklore and local lore. The author presents a lot of folk songs, proverbs and sayings, which talk about the peculiarities of production, material, methods of dressing and wearing, and attitudes to the components of folk clothing of Transcarpathia. Particular attention is paid to the process of making cloth at home, finishing clothes. At the beginning, fragments of song folklore about sewing and embroidering shirts, their age and social functions are singled out and described. Skirts, scarves, jewelry and shoes are most often mentioned among the components of women's attire in the songs. All of them, like the shirt, were an important social marker. The song is a source of study and men's clothing, including shirts and hats. The decorated hats were the pride of young boys and men. The article pays special attention to wedding songs, which are about youth leisure, courtship, weaving periwinkle wreaths and wedding sticks. Folk costumes are often found in carols and Christmas carols. For the modern generation, the peculiarities of the folk costume of the region are transmitted through proverbs, sayings and beliefs, in which we find synonymous series "one's own-another's", thematic groups "wealth and poverty", opposition "stupid - smart", attitude to lazy people and lies.