Dzūkija traditional clothing was more varied and colorful than other Lithuanian regions. Women's clothing consisted of a shirt, skirt, apron, vest, belt, and headdress that depended on age and season. Headscarves were made of wool or linen and decorated with embroidery. Skirts were typically checkered in colors like green, purple, and blue. Aprons had striped or plaid patterns in red and white or blue and white. Men's clothing included caps, shirts with embroidered details, trousers in various fabrics and plaid patterns, and sermėga jackets made of decorated cloth. Belts were an important part of costumes for both women and men.

1. Dzūkija traditional
clothes
Eglė Sakalauskaitė, Inesa Kontrimaitė, Emilija Šiaulytė,
Laura Garbonytė
Gedminai progymnasium
2014

2. Clothes
Dzūkų traditional clothes more variegated,
more colorful than the other regions.
Dzūkijos women's clothing consisted of shirt,
skirt, apron, vest, belt, and headdress (braid
crown tucker or scarf) and footwear.

4. Headgear
Dzūkių head cover depends on the
woman's age and the time of year. Girls
head was decorated with live flowers, ruths,
wearing crowns decorated with beads and
knitwear.

6. Tucker
Tucker - head scarf headband,
cap.
Dzūkių tuckers were woven from
natural color or white linen.
Tucker dzūkės not knitted or
crocheted hooks and knitting
needles as the other women in
the region. They decorated
forehead flap.

7. Forehead flap
Forehead flap was made of
discontinuous and folded canvas strips
mostly white and red. In order to use
and a collection of strips. The strip
between the generations fringe, sew
wool, amber, pearl and coral beads.
Forehead flap sometimes sew and
bent at an angle to the scarves.

8. Winter shawls and wraps
The wool and wove linen dzukės
headscarves. Then they did the store-
bought cotton. I stitched in white
thread, different letters of two opposite
corners. Such wore headscarves one
Sunday from one angle to the top of
the other - the other.
On cold winter to wear a headscarf.
They were two colors of wool yarn,
small plaid. Subsequent periods shawls
detailed checkered brighter streaks, or
use them to decorate the ends.

9. Skirts
Most checkered,
wool and linen.
Typical colors: green,
purple, burgundy,
blue, yellow. Some
areas Dzūkijos white
linen or wool with
pressed to find skirts.

10. Bodice
Daily dzūkių bodice sewn from linen or union
cloth and Closed - union cloth or wool. The
most typical dzūkių cut jackets - from the waist
with loose front diverge tails.

11. Apron
Dzūkių aprons were transverse
striping and woven plaid. Red and
white or blue and white linen. XIX
century. Spread embroidered
aprons, embroidered at the
bottom of a dark transverse
filaments or multicolored silk
thread flowers and leaves.
Dzūkijoje aprons remained
significantly longer than in other
ethnographic areas.

12. Dzūkų menswear
Dzūkų menswear colored but modest. On
the head - tufted or mushroom cap. Shirts
canvas, the cuffs, chest and sling-
decorated with red letters.

13. Pants - canvas of
various shades,
plaid detail. Bottom
trousers dawn
darker and nested
in variegated socks.
Crocheted string of
colored shoes, and
then stitched
leather sole.

14. Sermėga
The most important changes
of the garment was a man
sermėga. XIX century at the
end it was replaced by a short
jacket. And sermėga and
jackets in Dzūkija were made ​​
of unpainted milo, decorated
with ornaments decorative
stitches, velvet piping, other
tissue elements. There were
embroidered shirts or white in
color - this custom came from
Russia.

15. The most important part of
the costume
Dzūkija very important for women and men in
costume - belt. Severe upper garments for
men goes for women suit is usually narrower,
traditional ornaments printed with old band
was the first little girl in each tissue.

17. Dzūkų shoes
Women, as elsewhere, the coveted shoes.
Without their input and wore footwear –
toeshoes or thick linen knitted champs.
Men wore boots or inferior home-wear.

18. Information sources
http://www.delfi.lt/gyvenimas/stilius/viskas-apie-lietuviu-tautini-
kostiuma-nuotrauku-albumas.d?id=9954611
http://www.grazitumano.lt/wiki/index.php/Dz
%C5%ABkija:_tautiniai_drabu%C5%BEiai
http://www.slideshare.net/sauliux/dzk-tautiniai-rbai
http://www.virsuliskiu.vilnius.lm.lt/M9.htm