ABSTRACT

This research was realized to examine and document women’s traditional clothes taking place among material culture items reflecting social belief, value judgments, thoughts and life styles and to provide them to inspire for new design studies. In context of the study, the woman clothes samples (bindallı) taking place in Tekirdağ Ethnography Museum were researched. Clothes were documented by examining in the direction of the observation forms in which there were information about the material, colour, model, cut, sewing, ornamentation specialities, dimensions and lining. Traditional clothes, which carry extinction risk because of the main material is fabric present to the future with their all specialities bears big importance for continuing the material culture.