Anna Karenina vocabulary

34 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)

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34 [fashion] words
gusset
forage cap
jerkin
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top boots
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bast shoes

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bast is the fibrous material of a plant, used for ropes, matting, shoes, etc, originally made from fibers of the basswood tree (hence the name)

Russian peasants (muzhiks) typically wore such shoes.

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"I never longed so for the country, Russian country, with bast shoes and peasants, as when I was spending a winter with my mother in Nice.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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