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Natural Grace Enhanced by National Dress
Pretty Young Gentlewoman of Slovakia

NATURAL GRACE ENHANCED BY NATIONAL DRESS

PRETTY YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN OF SLOVAKIA

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 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