Costume of Tatar ethic minority
2008-01-16

Men of Tatar ethnic minority group often wear an embroidered white shirt with a black short waistcoat or a black gown, black trousers and a cat with black and white embroidered patterns. Young men prefer a peaked cap. In winter, Tatar men wear black hat made of curly fur and long leather boots; herdsmen usually wear a kind of leather shoes made by themselves.
The women like white, yellow and purple dresses inlaid with pleated edges. They wear colored caps decorated with beads, and large veils over the caps. They adorn themselves with all sorts of ornaments such as earrings, necklaces of red beads, fingerings and brooches, etc.
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