Male costume of Eastern Slavic nations in Kuban: from tradition to europeanization (late 19th - early 20thcenturies)

Basing on a wide range of sources the article deals with processes of transformation and modernization of the Eastern-Slavic traditional clothing in the Kuban Region. The author considers diachronic development of the basic components of the citified (European) suit and the way it influenced Cossack and peasant traditional costume.