• Early history

    up to 1888

    First Steps towards creating a national costume

    1888–1895

    Art Nouveau folk costumes

    1904–1910

    The first regional costumes – the final modern national costumes

    1926–1931

    Ethnographically precise costumes

    1931–1940

    Attempting to survive

    1948–1960

    National costume as a stylised stage costume

    1960–1979

    Back to the roots – on the path to a national awakening

    1980–1989

    National costumes in Latvia after the restoration of independence

    1990 to the present

    Alternative national costume

    1923 to the present