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Yerevan nobility, 1960's.Source:
Memories of the artist about her mother's outfit in 1960's.We can copy and custom make garments from photographs.
Ancestral Armenians continuously inhabiting the Armenian Plateau
before and throughout the rise and fall of the Old and Middle
Kingdoms in Egypt, the entire history of Minoan and Mycanaean
cultures (ca 2200-1400 BC), the Indus civilization in present day
Pakistan (ca. 2500-1500 BC), the first semi-mythical Hsia
(ca 2000-1523 BC) and most of the Shang (1766-1027 BC) Dynasties in China.
Taking advantage of the fulcrum Menuas established at Menuakhnili, Menuas' son
Argishti I and his son, Sardur I expanded the Armenian empire.
He ordered the building of several key outposts, among them Erebuni
in 782 BC, which is considered the beginning of Yerevan’s history,
and Argishitinili (present day Armavir, in Armenia).
HISTORY
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Armenia is the first country to convert to Christianity. The citadel at Erebuni
in it's capital Yerevan, reminds us of Armenia the first country in almost
everything else, a country with much older history that recalls the pagan
roots of her traditions which - while couched in Christian terms--are as
ancient as the first signs of civilization etched in her highlands.
Yerevan is in the area of Ararat, which served as the central link
of accepted dress between eastern and western Armenia.
This is my mother. Of course, not the doll, but the outfit. I remember her outfit
as one evening my father and my mother got dressed up to go to the opera. I was a
7 or 8 year old child, but the memory has vividly stayed with me. It was in the
early 60's and that was the style in Yerevan, my hometown. Even though I don't think
my mother was up to snuff on style, she looked very stylish to me. Notice the
mandatory necklace - everybody wore it - and the handbag with that peculiar wrist
strap. That was the style. I have given this doll to my mother as a birthday
present. Too bad my father is not with us, because I think he, also, would
have enjoyed it.MY MOM