Traditional Serbian shirt dress

Costumes

Inventory number
2025.7.26.4.CO.ET.C1970.RS
Author:
Narodna radinost (Serbian, 1950s-1990s)
Description
A long four-piece Serbian traditional shirt dress made of ecru linen canvas with ethnic embroidery.

The dress has long sleeves gathered with elastic bands at the wrists and extended with cross-stitched ruffle cuffs, a narrow embroidered stand-up collar with a single knitted button and hanging loop closure, a double cross-stitched with red-green-yellow cotton threads square yoke and shoulders at front.
Materials
Linen canvas
Cotton thread
Origin
1970s Beograd, Serbia

Exhibition History
• 2025.07.31–2025.08.29. ‘Moments of our Youth. From the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev foundation.’ Visaginas Festival of Spaces 2025, Visaginas Cultural Center ‘Draugystė‘, Visaginas, Lithuania.