Slovakia is said to be a museum of folk art, and the costumes of this
charming quartette from Turciansky Sv. Martin, adequately represent those
wonderful products of Slovak needles, which can be ranked with some
of the finest peasant handiwork in the world. But modern commerce is
beginning to play havoc with the peasants' art, and the lovely costumes of
Czechoslovakia are donned more frequently as festal than as everyday dress
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This dainty girl, in jaunty little fur cap, does not disdain the sheepskin
coat, familiar among the peasantry of her country, for thus attired she
is proof against the coldest wind
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