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We’re continuing to introduce you to the series of excellent videos dedicated to Ukrainian national clothing. They show you how vintage Ukrainian outfits are put on step by step. Here you are 5 videos that show the most eye-catching headdresses worn by married women, elderly women, and wedding matchmakers in different regions of Ukraine. All the clothing pieces are original, from the late 19th – early 20th century, and designed for special occasions. This is how Ukrainian married females dressed 100-150 years ago.
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The craft of embroidery is widespread throughout the planet. Practically every ethnic group traditionally uses needlework to embellish clothing, household items, various accessories, and other objects. But every culture has its own peculiarities, embroidery patterns, stitches, needlework techniques, compositions and combinations of embroidery on cloth, etc. And Kazakh people are no exception. Let’s take a closer look at the craft of embroidery in Kazakhstan and find out which patterns were typical, what materials were used, and what’s so special about Kazakh folk embroidery.
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A chemise or shift became widely used by both men and women in Europe in the medieval period and lasted for a few centuries. Even in the 21st century, some women wear similar lingerie but, of course, the cut, design, and adornments are different. In this article, we’ll talk about the chemise worn during the Early Modern era – how did it look like? what embellishments were popular? what fabric did they use? what design of shirts was typical? and so on. The 16th-17th century brought a lot of new trends into fashion, including underwear fashion.
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We’d like to offer you a series of great videos dedicated to Ukrainian national costumes. You will see how these gorgeous vintage garments are worn step by step, piece after piece, including authentic hairstyles, footwear, jewelry, and other important items. Here you are 5 videos that show unmarried girls from different regions of Ukraine dressing up for a festive occasion. All the clothing articles are original, from the late 19th – early 20th century. This is how young Ukrainian girls dressed 100-150 years ago.
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This is one of the most famous and recognizable African garments. It is known and appreciated far beyond the African continent. It is called “dashiki” and it is never out of fashion. Thousands, if not millions, of people in Africa and African diaspora wear dashiki in daily life and for special occasions, like weddings, celebrations, and even formal meetings. What’s so special about this piece? Why are there so many contemporary and authentic dashiki around us? How come that this folk garment survived throughout the complicated history of Africa and is still extremely popular today when so many authentic clothing articles are forgotten and left behind?
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In the late Middle Ages in Europe, there appeared a very noble-looking, expensive, and beautiful outer garment that quickly became fashionable among the wealthy. This robe’s design was so beloved by people that it is still worn by some of us in the modern day. This outstanding outerwear piece is called a “houppelande”. Let’s dig a little deeper and see the difference between male and female houppelandes, find out more about the cut and embellishments of medieval houppelandes, and learn about its origin.
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The central Ukrainian regions are characterized by a specific embroidery technique called “whitework” used to embellish the traditional clothing. Actually, every region of Ukraine has its own needlework features, techniques, patterns, and colors. But whitework is mostly seen only in a certain area. This extraordinary embroidery technique not only creates beautiful outfits but demands a lot of skill from a craftswoman. Though in the end, it’s worth all the effort. Let’s find out how Ukrainian whitework looks like, where women took inspirations for new patterns, and what whitework symbolizes.
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The stage costumes in the recent TV show The Witcher are rather beautiful, skillfully made, and eye-catching. They are a mix of medieval-style clothing, contemporary fashion ideas, and Gothic 1890s and 1930s fashion trends. The costume designer of this series Tim Aslam did his best to make these outfits accentuate the character’s nature, temper, mood, and position. Let us show you all that on examples. This material is dedicated to the movie costumes of characters from Cintra kingdom – Calanthe, Cirilla, Pavetta, Eist Tuirseach, and Mousesack.
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Romanian folk dress is one of those traditional outfits that have survived almost without any serious changes throughout centuries. The costumes show a lot of typically Slavic features, like embroidered shirts, sheepskin vests and hats, bright kerchiefs, narrow white trousers, etc. Of course, there is a great diversity of regional folk outfits. But let’s look closer at Romanian traditional attire and try to define its main characteristics.
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The traditional Ottoman male clothing in the 17th century looked pretty and unique – ornate, often made from silk, beautifully patterned, and designed in an original fashion. Some of the garments were commonly used not only in the Ottoman Empire but by its neighbors as well, but the whole outfit allowed you to recognize the wearer at once. Especially, the typical turban. The silhouette and cut of the attire also emanated a distinctive Ottoman charm and noble air.
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During human history, so many magnificent jewelry pieces were invented, including necklaces, bracelets, chokers, finger rings, anklets, and so on. But one of the most charming and cute jewels are temple rings used in Slavic countries since the Bronze Age. Also, medieval temple rings from Kyivan Rus’ are among the best samples of gold, silver, and bronze jewelry of that period. They are so diverse and skillfully made that we still admire them and envy those women who were lucky to wear these jewels. Today, temple rings are totally edged out by earrings – sadly, modern Slavic women don’t use temple rings anymore.
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The Witcher is one of the most anticipated and long-awaited TV shows of 2019. Season 1 is already out there for all of us to see, so we’ve decided to make an analysis of the stage costumes used in this series. In this material, we'll do a brief summary of the costumes and discuss the problems and challenges the costume designers came across during the shooting of this wonderful TV show. The rich tapestry of textures, a combination of metallics, blacks, and jewel tones, and some clever fabric manipulations – the costumes of the first season of The Witcher are a feast for the eyes.
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The Portuguese traditional costumes are diverse and good-looking. Some of them even look a bit unusual for a foreigner. But, as with most national outfits around the planet, there is an explanation to each variety, each shape, each design of dresses. Different regions of Portugal are characterized by different folk clothing – farmers had their specific garments, fishermen wore other clothes, the attire of cattlemen had another design, and so on. Let’s look at several Portuguese regions and compare their traditional female clothing. In this article, we don’t take men’s folk costumes because they aren’t as manifold and distinctive.
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The European fashion trends of the 16th century look rather bizarre for a modern observer. But that’s what makes it so interesting to study the history of fashion and the clothing traditions of a certain era. In this article, we’ll find out how wealthy European men looked like in 1530s-60s. We’ll try to surprise you with weird items of clothes, functional jewelry pieces, and unusual shapes and silhouettes of garments. This historical period is rich in portraits that can help us distinguish the main features of male clothing.
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