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Country Couple of Conservative Moravia
Three Trousered Beauties of Scutari

COUNTRY COUPLE OF CONSERVATIVE MORAVIA

THREE TROUSERED BEAUTIES OF SCUTARI

These are types of the thick-set, homely peasants to be found on the mountainous plateau of Moravia. Their quaint costumes give them a fantastic appearance. Many of them might have stepped from the posters of a comic opera In Scutari town, where Moslem and Christian Albanians mingle, all townswomen wear large, loose, Turkish trousers of silk or cloth. Silken also are their long-sleeved chemises, over which are embroidered boleros, with a huge many-coloured sash. Outdoors, all hide their faces in robes that fall from head to knee and serve the purpose of the Moslem veil