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Images of Clothing from the Slavic Period |
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This period predates the Kievan period somewhat, with overlap into the early Kievan period. The slavic peoples began building towns and arranging themselves into a civilization around the middle of the first millenium. These peoples preferred to settle and engage in agriculture, rather than continue the nomadic lifestyle of their Scythian predecessors. |
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Image 1: Women of the early slavic period, southern region. They wear their overdresses hitched up to display the embroidery of the hems of their underdresses, and the design reflects Greek influence. The woman on the left is married, as evidenced by her covered hair. This practice of covered hair for married women, and uncovered for maidens, is ancient in Russia, related to a pagan belief, and continues in some parts of the country to this day. Note the gathered neckline on the maiden's dress on the right. Archeological evidence points to sewn gathers, not drawstrings. |
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Image 2, below: Late Slavic, very early Kievan. Note the brocade overdress on the noble woman on the left of the trio. This indicates contact with Byzantium, since Russia did not have a native industry capable of producing brocade unless by extensive hand embroidery. In this image we begin to see the static and smoother lines of the clothing which so typified Kievan fashion. |
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Image 3, below: Late Slavic, Early Kievan. These nobles from the Kiev region wear garments almost indistinguishable from later Kievan styles. The clearest difference is their basic fabrics, most likely locally produced. Later in the Kievan era, nobles who could afford it wore as much imported silks and brocades from Byzantium as they could, though underlayers were still made of local linen and wool. The look of the garments in the below image are not dissimilar from the western styles more familliar to us. Of notable difference are the richly decorated panels on the women's veils, called an ubrus. |
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