It is said about the beginning of life on the earth in one of the Bashkir legends: “ after origin of the world the people begin to live in different places. The certain language, clothes, special food was given to each people.” (The Bashkir legends and legends. Ufa, 1985. С.258) The Bashkir traditional costume does not repeat of any other people, though has absorbed various styles for a long time of development. The clothes of the Bashkirs of Chelyabinsco- Kurgan Zaural Зауралья differed from clothes of Perm or Samaro - Saratov bashkir. The population of the mountain - wood places dressed not as those, who were from steppe places etc. So each region had its own costume. And this has been developing from time immemorial.

  There are seven complexes in the Bashkir clothes: north- western, north- east, south- western, south- east, central, east and samaro-irgizscky.

   In any costume there is an element, which is peculiar only for it. For a central complex it was cata with felt tops of boots, for south - east - cashmau, an original headgear, covered by silver etc.

  The men's clothes consisted of a broad and long shirtsleeve with a direct cut of a collar, trousers with a broad step, easy with straight backs dressing gownes, camsoles and tulups. Men’s headgears -tyubeteykas, round fur caps, malahay, hats. Man's headgear, i.e. chalma was popular among the Bashkir people as among other Muslim peoples. It was not daily headgear.It was put on mainly by old men, when visiting mosque, and also attendants of a cult - mullah.

   In the past there were also other headgears. The Bashkir riders, participating in the Fatherland war with the French in 1812, were remembered by Western Europe by their cone-shaped caps with fur trims etc.

   Traditional female clothes were: a dress with flounces, an apron, a camisole. The young women had breast ornaments from corals and coins (seltar, hacal). The Bashkir women had a variety of the headgears. The headgear of the married women - – was represented by a mob-cap from a coral grid with silver suspensions and coins and with the long blade behind the cashmau. The headgear of the maiden girls was takiya, a cap in the shape of a helmet, covered by silver coins and fringe from threads of corals on an edge. The Bashkir girls usually, especially in summer, walked with a uncovered head, the adult girls and women always carried cotton shawls.

   An ancient headgear was cushyaulik - large doubleshawl, which was put by the young women on. The old Bashkir women put on tastar, i.e. a headgear such as a towel of length approximately 250 - 280 sm and width 35 – 40sm. The woman wound her head with it, leaving the face opened; embroided edges ends lied: one on the breast, the other also decorated on the back. Fur caps were carried on the top of it. There was time when a female costume consisted of a haraus along with canvas with embroidery. Its true purpose is already forgotten. It is believed, that once it was a part of a wedding set - gift.

   Footwear were leather boots, bashmacs, ichigs, bahili,- laptas. Leather boots were carried both by men, and women. They were put on with foot bindings, less often, with woolen or cloth stockings. Also low footwear from a leather like shoes – bashmacs and sariki were rather widely spread. The head of it was of home-made leather, the top of a boot of cloth. Sariki were put on both by men and women. In holidays and week-days. Female sariki differed from those of men's, their backs on white cloth were decorated with the pattern which has been cut out from red cloth. The footwear had distribution in the north- western part , it was carried in a southern part of Bashkortostan mainly during field activities.

   Art methods: pattern weaving, embroidery, applique work, jeweller items, patterns from corals, beads, silver, stamping on leather were used For creation of clothes. The dresses, shirtsleeves, headgears, upper clothes, sometimes and footwear were decorated with embroidery. Thus man used various methods: a chain-stitch seam, slanting grid, accounting iron. Applique work was widely applied. This way of decorative design was much brightly shown in an decoration of sariki. In dressing of national clothes the corals, beads, silver coins, stained glasses, jewels, bowl etc. were used. By ancient ideas of the people these and ring of silver had power, which was capable to chase malicious spirits. Clothes were decorated by coins, silver by many peoples of East. And the common thing for them was that the cuts, cut-outs, train, collar, sleeves, clasps on a costume were decorated, that is the vulnerable places, through which could malicious spirits penetrate.