“Costume Image” as a Means of the Concretising an Ideal

Abstract

That examines the interaction of multiple values in a “costume image” or in description of symbolic costume details characterises a heroin in poetic works. In Kabardian poetry of the 20th century, the most “informative” costume elements appear in the poems created in the period of radical transformations in society and in descriptions of women’s clothes one can find symbolic elements that help to compare and to contrast the Past and the Present.