ÚŘEDNÍ SPISY JAKO PRAMEN K VÝZKUMU LIDOVÉHO ODĚVU NA ZÁPADNÍ MORAVĚ

The collections of the Brno field office of the Institute of Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic includes a number of items (reproductions) provided by one of the institutions former members Vlasta Svobodová which shed light on the history of the folk dress in Western Moravia. This paper uses data from Ms. Svobodová‘s research on folk dress in the region around Náměšť nad Oslavou based on field research and analysis of documents from inheritance proceedings to provide a description of items of clothing worn by men and women in the region in question and to draw attention to these hitherto untapped sources of information on material culture of Western Moravia.