Tajik, Uzbek women’s costume

The Emirate of Bukhara. Early 20th century

The difference between the costume and its figurine depiction:
The most common form of headwear in the Bukhara oasis was a set consisting of a frontlet and one or two kerchiefs fully covering the hair. A tubeteika is the headwear in the sculpture, which was a novelty for the Bukhara women’s costume in the early 20th century. A robe was the everyday outer clothing. When going outside, women always put on a faranji (paranja), a head cloak. The sculpture does not feature these items.

* When the Uzbek and the Tajik Soviet Republics were formed, Uzbek (for Turkic speaking people) and Tajik (for Iranian speaking people) generalising ethnonyms were introduced, though basic cultural features of these people remained common.