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OLD TIME ESTHONIAN COSTUMES THAT HAVE BEEN ALMOST SUPERSEDED BY MODERN FASHIONS Handiwork has always flourished in the homes of the Esthonian peasantry, but the beautiful old country costumes, rich in embroidery and gay with trinkets, have been replaced by more modern and decidedly less attractive garments. The handsome costumes seen in this photograph are now almost obsolete, but a certain type of national dress is still in existence in the Petseri district, and the inhabitants of the several islands belonging to Esthonia continue to cling with praiseworthy pertinacity to the prettily-coloured and beaded attire of an earlier generation |