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Tanulmányok - Csiszár Attila: Adatok a kapuvári népviselet történetéhez. Varga Józsefné Sipőcz Terézia hagyatéki leltára (1880)
ARRABONA 2010. 48 / 1. TANULMÁNYOK CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE TRADITIONAL DRESS OF KAPUVÁR The inventory of inheritance of Varga Józsefné Sipőcz Terézia (1880) At the end of the 18th century the serfs still using traditional technology but utilising the agricultural boom following the French Wars increased their production. After the French Wars the effects of the European Industrial Revolution could be felt also in as the ratio of the population which lived from other sectors than the agriculture increased and it required the continuation of the production and marketing of the agricultural surplus. As a result of this process, which had some stops and step-backs, the peasants could make more and more money which triggered their strong financial differentiation and promoted a change of their culture. The financial growth sooner or later manifested itself in the fields of housing, domestic culture and dressing. The 1840 volume of the “First Hungarian review of Fine Arts” called “Regélő” published an article on the Rábaköz Region, in which the cultured public could read about the traditional dress of this region for the first time. At that time the dressing culture of the Rábaköz could be homogenous, i.e. the dresses of Kapuvár might not differ considerably from those of the surrounding villages. By the end of the 19th century the differentiation of the society of Kapuvár deepened further. Both in the Esterházy Estate and the peasant farms used advanced technology for the production of such industrial plants as the corn and sugar beet, and the processing plants also appeared. Due to Esterházy estate the higher layer of the peasants had limited land acquiring opportunities, so they invested their money into the increase of their way of living. Houses built of brick and covered with tiles appeared and their so called “clean room” were furnished by painted furniture made by the local workshops. The simple everyday clothes and more expensive attires made of fine stuff for celebration days were kept in the chests and the wardrobes. The start of a new era of the traditional dress began when beside clothes made in the traditional workshops industrial textiles, silk and velvet also appeared as the material of the overclothes. The attires became more complicated, ornamented and colourful. This paper describe an inventory taken of the inheritance of the second wife of Varga Berta József, called Sipőcz Terézia who died on 19th November 1879 at the age of Kapuvár. In addition to the domestic and household textile of the dowry the inventory lists almost each pieces of the young woman’s stock of clothes as well as the pieces that the couple acquired together. The appearance of this inventory is an important contribution to the history of the traditional Kapuvár dress, since from this early (second) phase of the traditional dress no pieces survived and we did not know the exact composition of the women’s stock of clothes either. Attila Csiszár 158
