The publication is a major systematic review of information related to the life of different peoples. For a long time, a person through clothes, outfits, jewelry, amulets built bridges between the vulnerable body and the merciless world around him. The book of the German scientist Friedrich Gottenrot "The History of External Culture" is evidence of the transition of historical science to a systematic study of material culture, which began in the middle of the 19th century, to identify the features, similarities and differences in the lifestyle of different peoples at different stages of their development.