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Chiffon Ruffle OP & Headdress from Pina-Sweet Collection
More Uighurs coming your way. This is a portrait of a Uighur girl from Kashgar, Xinjiang Province, China, from 1943.
Uighur people are settled (as opposed to being traditionally nomadic) Turks who have lived in the Kashgar and Tarim basins in what is today China for hundreds of years. Their history is truly fascinating. At one point, the Uighurs had created an almost utopian Buddhist society. Later they converted to Islam and eventually became scribes for Ghengis Khan’s empire. They speak a Turkic language that is extremely similar (mutually comprehensible, even) to Uzbek, which makes sense because in pre-Soviet/Chinese times all Central Asian Turks simply spoke different dialects of what was call “Turki.”
Today, Uighurs live throughout Central Asia and Eastern China and make some damn good food, especially a noodle soup called lagman.
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Dress, 1890s. Two-piece gray silk faille. Boned bodice covered in pleated black chiffon with sequins and crystal beads. Back chiffon insert with cream tape lace. Sleeves puffed front and back, ruffled collar with back bow, ruffled cuff. Skirt lined in polished cotton with velvet hem band. Whitaker Auctions.
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moon-proof petticoat is another one of those things that i think would make a good band name
but…. but…. why…. why would you wear tights _and_ leave free hanging garters????
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