92 Skhidnoievropeiskyi Istorychnyi Visnyk. Issue 29. 2023 Volodymyr SHCHYBRIA, Nataliia KHOMENKO UDC 391.2(477.82)“18/19” DOI 10.24919/2519-058X.29.292948 Volodymyr SHCHYBRIA PhD (History), Coordinator of the Folklore and Ethnography Center of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, 14 Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, Kyiv, Ukraine, postal code 01601 (volodshch@ukr.net) ORCID: 0000-0003-0918-7724 Nataliia KHOMENKO PhD (Philology), Assistant Professor of the Department of Folkloristics of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, 14 Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, Kyiv, Ukraine, postal code 01601 (n.khomenko@knu.ua) ORCID: 0009-0009-5403-5456 Володимир ЩИБРЯ кандидат історичних наук, координатор Центру фольклору та етнографії Навчально- наукового інституту філології Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка, бульвар Тараса Шевченка, 14, м. Київ, Україна, індекс 01601 (volodshch@ukr.net) Наталія ХОМЕНКО кандидатка філологічних наук, асистентка кафедри фольклористики Навчально-наукового інституту філології Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка, бульвар Тараса Шевченка, 14, м. Київ, Україна, індекс 01601 (n.khomenko@knu.ua) Bibliographic Description of the Article: Shchybria, V. & Khomenko, N. (2023). Traditional Folk Women’s Clothing of Western Volyn. Skhidnoievropeiskyi istorychnyi visnyk [East European Historical Bulletin], 29, 92–104. doi: 10.24919/2519-058X.29.292948 TRADITIONAL FOLK WOMEN’S CLOTHING OF WESTERN VOLYN Abstract. The purpose of the article is to do the research on the complexes of women’s clothing in Western Volyn at the end of the 19th and the mid-20th centuries, to characterize the fabric, types of cut and decoration, and to determine their local features. The Methodology of the Research. In the research there have been used a number of general scientific and special methods: a typological analysis, comparative and historical, statistical, structural and functional methods, field studies, as well as a direct observation method. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that for the first time in the article there have been collected and systematized the materials from archival, published, expeditionary and museum sources regarding the traditional clothing of Western Volyn of the end of the 19th – mid-20th centuries; its local features have been determined; new terminology has been introduced into scientific circulation; the geographical boundaries of certain phenomena distribution have been specified. The Conclusion. The folk clothing of Western Volyn, despite transformation and modification that took place at the end of the 19th century – at the beginning 20th century, retained its special flavour. One of the defining features of the clothes in the region under analysis is the colour of embroidery, namely black. The tradition of black-embroidered shirts covers Sokal, Ivanychi, Volodymyr-Volynsky and Horokhiv districts of Volyn region, as well as a significant part of Hrubeszów