Every region in the world is easily identifiable by the kind of clothing that was traditionally worn there. From the 'kimonos' worn in Japan to the 'sarees' draped in India, from the 'kilts' of Scotland to the 'pueblas' of Mexico, these outfits were, and still are, synonymous with the culture of the country. Clothing that
Hello all, this is my 200th article, and I thought i should do something rather different. I will do an overview of the folk costumes of Europe. I will follow nation-states, as inappropriate as that may be, but i will also cover nations without states. Some very small and obscure ethnic groups will be omitted for lack of available material. I will also not be covering the north Caucuses, as there is simply too much material there. Where there is a recognized or unofficial 'National Costume' I will show that. This will necessarily not include much in the way of explanation. Iceland Upphultur Peysufot Faldbuningar Faroe Islands Ireland Scotland England Wales Brittany Bigoudin Kemper [Quimper] Plougastel France Berry Normandie [Normandy] Provence Euskadi [the Basque Country] Andorra [also Rousillon and Catalonia] Spain Andalucia La Mancha Galicia Portugal Minho Madeira Algarve Monaco [also Nice] Italy Lombardy Lazio Calabria Arbëreshë [Italo Albanians] Vatican City There is no women's costume for the Vatican Sardinia Florinas Orgosolo Quartu Sant'Elena Malta Switzerland Appenzell Valais/Wallis Graubunden/Grisons Liechtenstein Germany Miesbach, Bavaria Gutach, Schwartzwald Scheesel, Lower Saxony Luxembourg Belgium The Netherlands Volendam Beveland Staphorst Friesland [Frisia] West East North Denmark Fanø Hedebo Amager Norway There have been several attempts to design a national costume, but most of them have not received much acceptance. The most successful was a simplified form of the Hardanger costume, but this is currently little used, as most people wear their local bunad. Hardanger Setesdal Gudbrandsdal Sweden National Costume Värend Rättvik Sabme [Lappland] Jokkmokk Kautokeino Skolt Finland Häme, western Finland Kaukola, Finnish Karelia Tuuteri, on the Finnish Isthmus Estonia Järva-Jaani, North Estonia Muhu Island Setu, South Estonia Livonia Latvia Latgale Vidzeme Nica Lithuania Aukštaitija Žemaitija Vilnius Kaszëbskô [Kashubia] Poland Łowicz, Mazowsze Krakow, Małopolska Podhale One of many Górale or Highlander costumes Sorbia [Lusatia] Chosebus [Cottbus], Lower Lusatia Slepo [Schleife], Upper Lusatia Catholic costume, Upper Lusatia Bohemia Plzeň [Pilsen] Blata Nové Paky, Northeast Bohemia Moravia Hanak Valašsko Vlčnov, Slovacko Slovakia Myjava Detva Šariš Hungary Palóc Kalocsa Matyó Austria Montafon, Vorarlberg Tyrol Upper Austria Slovenia Gorenjsko Dolenjska Bela Krajina Croatia Posavina Zagrebačko Prigorje Dubrovnik/Konavle Bosnia Moslem town costume East Hercegovina Orthodox Serbian Costume Travnik, Catholic Croatian Costume Serbia Šumadija Vojvodina Gniljane Crna Gora [Montenegro] Macedonia Skopska Blatija Galichnik Radovish Gorani Albania North Albania and Kosovo [Gheg] Sulovë, Central Albania Fieri, South Albania [Tosk] Greece Amalia Costume, Athens Kriti [Crete] Karagouna, Thessaly Cyprus Bulgaria Sofia [Shope] Rhodope Severnjashko [North] Vlach in Serbia in Greece in Albania Romania Wallachia Transylvania Moldavia Moldova Gagauz Crimean Tatar Ukraine Central Ukraine Hutsul Volyn' Carpatho-Rusyn, Lemko Komancha Venhryny [Čirč region] Jakubany Belarus Svetlahorski region, Western Polissia Malarytski region, Eastern Polissia Russia Peasants from northern Russia Kaluga Province Voronezh Province Karelia [Russian held part] Tver' Province Karelians Veps Nenets The Nentsi [formerly known as the Samoyed], live along the arctic coast from the White Sea to well past the Urals, and thus into Asia. Komi Permliak Udmurtia Northern Udmurt Southern Udmurt Mari-El Ural Mari Mordovia Erzya Moksha, Contemporary Costume Men Chuvashia Anatri Chuvash bride and her father Anat Enchi bride, groom and married woman Virial Chuvash Matchmaker Tatarstan [Kazan'] Bashkortostan [Bashkir] Kalmuk [Kalmyk] Thank you for reading, I hope that you have found this to be interesting and informative. Roman Kozak
This series of coloring pages featuring children around the world is great for kids to learn about their heritage.
Europe - Norway Switzerland Belarus Montenegro Man Woman National Traditional Costume Dress Clothing Icon Symbol Sign Pictogram. A set of pictograms representing clothing from Norway, Switzerland, Belarus, and Montenegro. apparel, attire, belarus, belarusian, bunad, clothing, costume, country, couple, cultural, culture, design, dress, dresscode, ethnic, etiquette, europe, european, fashion, female, folk, formal, girl, heritage, icon, male, man, man icon, Montenegro, nation, national, norway, norwegian, old, om symbol, outfit, people, pictogram, race, regional, religion, shirt, sign, style, swiss, switzerland, symbol, tradition, traditional, wear, woman, world This is a digital instant download. Zip file contains a large JPEG with individual SVG and PNG for each artwork, icon, and pictogram. All files are saved in the highest quality. Your purchase of this item from Etsy is for Standard License only. To purchase the Extended License, please visit www.leremy.com for more information. Standard License - For website, mobile or desktop app, printing, marketing material, presentation, video, signboard, and almost anywhere at all. Extended License - For all the above with addition of using it on merchandise items or resell purposes (such as T-shirt, cards, books, part of mass distributed digital products, and etc.)
A coloring sheet for 1st graders about clothing and people from around the world. This one is of a Scottish boy in a kilt.
A coloring sheet for 1st graders about people from around the world. This is a picture of a German boy in traditional clothing.
Lapland Traditional Costumes, Finland
This Spring updated versions of 'Trachten", the traditional German and Austrian alpine clothing have appeared on the fashion runway, in numerous stores, and in the Style & Fashion section of the Weekend Wall Street Journal (1-28/29-2012) . Fashionistas of yesterday also favored this style - Millicent Rogers, Wallis Simpson and Edward were among its fans. Trachten clothing includes: Jackets and capes made of loden, (a type of felt) embellished with antler horn, bone or engraved silver buttons. Hats adorned with wild boar bristle pins and hunting medals Lederhosen (leather shorts with suspenders) Dirndl dresses (a layered costume consisting of a blouse, vest, skirt and apron). If you're still confused - just think 'The Sound of Music'! I, too, have a bit of a Loden past. When I was a teenager, our family took a summer vacation to Europe. We found a low cost air fare on a charter flight, but there was a catch. We had to become members of a traveling German singing group, who had booked the plane. The group looked something like this: One stop on our tour was Salzburg, where we found a tiny little shop that sold traditional folk clothing and costumes. I entered as a naive teenager from Upstate New York, and came out as Maria von Trapp in my drindl and grey loden jacket. My younger brother picked out a fetching pair of lederhosen shorts. In college, I returned to Europe as an art history student. Living in Florence Italy I became enchanted by the heavy green loden coats worn by the Florentines. Searching out a resale shop, I purchased a used loden coat. It kept me snug and fashionable during that long ago Italian Spring. Many years and many lodens later (including a coat and several jackets like the one below)... Guess what I found last week at the local Goodwill resale shop? You guessed it - a Loden Coat! Still tracking trachten, Marjorie
Children of the World Clip art - Australia, Oceania & the Arctic. This set contains a boy and girl dressed in the traditional clothes of the country they are representing. You will get a male and female for each of the countries listed below: - Arctic region - Australia (Aboriginal) - Fiji - Hawaii - New Zealand (Maori) - Samoa You will get 3 copies of each image (36 images in total) in the following formats: black and white; colored with colored outlines and colored with black outlines. All images are in PNG format and are 300dpi. By purchasing this set you agree to the RamonaM Graphics T&CClick here to download a copy Copy also included with set. Also in this series: Europe Asia & Middle East The Americas Africa
Pack your bags for a Mediterranean fashion trip! Learn all about the traditional clothes of the beautiful country of Greece.
Hello all, This is the last of the four articles of my overview of Croatian Costume. Today I am covering the Adriatic zone, which consists of the islands and a narrow strip of the coast of the Adriatic Sea. This may possibly be the smallest zone in terms of land area, but is extremely rich in culture and costume. I will again cover this region from north to south. 1. Istria Istria is the peninsula in the extreme northeast of Croatia, with the northern edge shared by Slovenia and Italy. It is an ethnically mixed area, with Croatians, Slovenes, Italians, Vlachs, Morlaks and Istriots. Chakavian, Croatian, Italian, Venetian, Slovene, Vlach [Istro-Romanian] and Istriot are all still spoken on the peninsula. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istria Most of the costumes which I have seen are linked with localities rather than ethnicities. I am sure that there is a great deal of information which I have only seen bits and pieces of. Here are some images of the costume of Medulin, the most commonly seen costume of Istria. Istria and some of the islands have retained some very ancient modal forms of music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsQ0ERchBLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCxmAFy2CHU http://www.smrikve.com/istria/books/smrikve/istrian-music/page-2/ 2. Hrvatsko Primorje, The Croatian littoral, this is the coast from the Istrian peninsula to the Zadar peninsula, around Kvarner bay. These costumes are from the northern part of the coast, called Liburnijski Kras, near the town of Opatija. Dances from this region https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtsG_Jv-1Hc This image is labelled Kvarner, so it must be from somewhere on this coast. In form and construction, if not in color, it is very similar to the famous costume from the area around Novi Vinodolski. . 3. The northern islands. Otok is the Croatian word for island. Otok Krk This is not an abbreviation, r is treated as a vowel in the Croatian language. I have already done a pair of in-depth articles on this costume. http://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2011/10/adriatic-costume-of-island-of-krk.html http://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2011/10/mens-costume-of-island-of-krk-dalmatia.html Dances and songs from Baška, Otok Krk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPfJRSIVaKo Otok Rab Dance from Otok Rab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOnW8axJ4XA Otok Cres The following costumes are from Orlec on the island of Cres. Singers in the Liburnijski Kras costume, Dancers in Cres costume enter at 1:50 mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IJbVk_pRgE Otok Susak Dances from Susak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkX1D8pPYLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwPSEf1xq2M Otok Silba Dances from Silba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fdN5qkaLZg Otok Olib A series of home movies from Olib, showing the costume in some scenes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXTUDptSnD0 Otok Pag Dances from Pag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDAumyWQ_Ag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1mYg8wYhec 4. Zadar Peninsula and northern Dalmatian coast. Some communities have kept their unique local costumes. In this area, Dinaric elements can be mixed with the littoral zone elements. Novigrad Ražanac This costume looks to me like the young person's costume has been lost and all are now wearing what used to be the older women's outfit. The dances and songs from this area are often performed, however. Dances from Ražanac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8m7pDRPzfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgzkDgsIFcs Vrsi Nin Privlaka Zadar country costume Zadar city costume Otok Ugljan Otok Iž Otok Pašman This seems to be a song concert on Pašman, but they seem to be wearing jackets over the costume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2i7exk-lqo Sveti Filip i Jakov Pakoštane Otok Murter Songs and dances from Murter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHNB5YrHMmo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ayJ7pMrdxk Otok Zlarin Šibenik Country costume City Costume Primošten 5. Southern Dalmatian coast and Islands. This includes the area around Split and south. Split The city costume of Split is very famous, and I have already written an in depth article about it. http://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2011/12/gradska-nosnja-town-costume-of-split.html Dances from Split https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuMoZzuBN9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-wgz6urrAw Omiš Otok Brač Dances from Brač https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXow5PI3LOg Otok Hvar Dances from Hvar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B_28gTYBXs Makarska Orebić This is a town on the Pelješac peninsula. Otok Korčula This island also is the home of a ritual men's sword dance, the Kumpanjija, which is done in older costumes. Dances from Korčula https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6x7EVXtQw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMaL4XyZII A glimpse of the Kumpanjija. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi0aJq5Sq14 Otok Lastovo The men are dressed in the carnival costume called pokladar, which is used for another ritual sword dance. The Poklad of Lastovo on stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgEfTnenNdc Otok Mljet Dubrovačko Primorje This is the coastal region north of the city of Dubrovnik, the home of the famous dance Lindjo. The image at the head of this article is from this region. The Lindjo a very pretty video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N77W-YV1AoU a video showing normal people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFm3OS9h0ns Dubrovnik Konavle Čilipi This is the costume of the coast south of Dubrovnik. I have also done an in depth article on this costume. The men's costume is essentially the same as the previous one. http://folkcostume.blogspot.com/2011/10/costume-of-dubrovnik-county-konavlje.html Dances from this region https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke7oglHhJus Boka Kotorska The bay of Kotor is in Montenegro just beyond the southern tip of the Croatian border. There is a Croatian presence in this bay, and the costume is of the Adriatic zone. Songs and dances from Boka Kotorska Good costumes, but the video is a bit murky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSLmsdHvcQ4 Good dancing, but the women did not close their bodices, and are not wearing petticoats. Sloppy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA6g3aSH-hg Good video. The men come on doing the local Mariner's Guild line dance. This is a port, and the men are traditionally sailors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJsOvuG5Y50 Well, I admit that this ended up being longer than I had expected. Thank you for reading. I hope that you still found it interesting and informative. You likely noticed that many islands and coastal areas were omitted. This is because I have little or no information as to those areas. I would love to learn more if anyone knows any good sources. This is the facebook page 'Croatian Traditional Costumes', which is a fantastic resource on the subject and a source of very good quality photographs https://www.facebook.com/CroatianTraditionalCostumes Feel free to contact me with requests for research. I hope to eventually cover all of Europe and the Former Russian Empire/Soviet Union. I also gratefully accept tips on source materials which i may not have. I also accept commissions to research/design, sew, and/or embroider costumes or other items for groups or individuals. Roman K. email: [email protected]
