Tradicionālā apģērba novadu izveides varianti. Latgales piemērs

Researchers of Latvian dress history have made multiple attempts to divide the traditional dress of the 19th century into small regions and to draw maps of these regions. Emphasising the differences among the garments that survived from these regions, Latvian folk costumes were created. The aim of this study is to investigate the construction and the validity of these regions regarding Latgalian traditional dress. To find out how these regions were constructed a thorough examination of the maps was carried out and their justification was questioned by analysing the uniqueness and chronology of the characteristic traits of the garments that were used for the division of each region. The conclusions made allow to revise the approach of seeking the geographical differences that has been used in the research of traditional dress so far.