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Magyar Clothing (9th to 10th century - Honfoglolas period) By Paul O'Donnell Manikin photographs provided courtesy of HunMagyar.org http://www.hunmagyar.org. The photographs are from the Honfoglalas celebrations in Hungary 1996. Aproximately described, this was a celebration of the crossing over the Carpathians in 896 CE. The Honfoglolas period is the late 9th early 10th cent. The Magyar man wears a tall fur trimmed felt hat, double breasted silk brocade coat, loose trousers (cut unknown), and high cut leather boots. In some cases the boots would button up the outside of the leg with silver buttons (one source states that prick spurs were worn at this period also). The silver decorated sabretache, hanging from a belt highly decorated with metal plates, indicate that he is a man of some bearing. He has a quiver hanging from his right side and an unstrung bow in a leather and bone case (considered old fashioned by this time period) on the left, along with a gently curved sabre with "pistolgrip" style handle. The Magyar woman wears similar clothes to her male counterpart -- loose trousers, long double-breasted coat trimmed with silk, high calf boots and a tall hat. The hat is trimmed with silk instead of fur. The decorative plaques over each breast are silver with inlaid gold, the most notable of these articles has the Turul eagle imprint on it(I do not yet know how these were attached.) At this stage I do not know if the "buttons" on the front of the coat are actually functional as these exact decorations have been found on other items of clothing in a non-functional manner, including the front of boots and aproximately 50 on a womans headdress. Women's belts appear to be far less elaborate than men's, in this example the belt is a silk sash.