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It’s very easy to find Indian traditional clothing in movies and video clips because these outfits are extremely cheerful, colorful, ornate, and beautiful. Not only women of Indian origin love wearing a sari but practically any woman would like to try this lovely attire. Here’s an example – Iggy Azalea, Australian singer, wears a row of sarees in her video “Bounce”. Also, you can see choli blouses, male turbans and sherwani coats, various Indian traditional jewelry, and other Indian folk garments in this video.
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What kind of thread did people use to make clothing in Middle Age Europe? Of course, all of these threads were handmade, same as the clothes. But what else do we know about medieval sewing threads? There are very few surviving examples that can tell us something about this era’s threads – it would be really great if museums did more research and publications on this topic, by the way. Still, some info is available, so let’s try to gather and structure it.
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Brazilian women of African origin traditionally wore a distinctive garment that showed their status and heritage. It was a shawl-like piece called “pano da costa”. We can find it in many illustrations and old photos. Most often, such a garment was used by Afro-Brazilian matrons, older women. In the photos, they’re sitting with pride and dignity in their posture, wrapped in a decorative shawl and with an intricately draped traditional head tie. Let’s find out more about the pano da costa. What did it look like? What for did women use it? What embellishments did it have?
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Kids’ footwear in the Western world in the early-mid 1800s was a prerogative of wealthy or at least middle-class families. Many poor children went barefoot, especially in rural areas, or wore cheap and coarse shoes, which they had to use for years, so such footwear usually was very worn and didn’t survive to this day. But wealthier families bought lovely shoes for their little ones, often rather costly and fine items. A lot of them are now stored in fashion museums, folk museums, and private collections, so luckily, we’re able to see them up close.
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Folklorico dance or ballet folklórico are terms naming Mexican traditional dances. These folk dances require specific costumes that differ from region to region. In this post, we’ll tell you a little about the mentioned traditional outfits used by folklórico dancers in various corners of Mexico. The ballet folklórico is so colorful, cheerful, and eye-catching that it became popular far outside Mexico and is performed today not only by the locals but by foreigners as well. Gorgeous folk dance in gorgeous folk costumes!
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This period was not so long ago, only 100 years separate us, but regarding fashion, we’re worlds apart. Edwardian fashion made a turn toward our modern clothing styles, becoming more practical and sensible, but still, there were so many trends very different and even unimaginable for us. How could they wear those garments?!, some people would say. Especially when we’re talking about the ladies. But they did. Women fainted in corsets, lost balance because of their 20-pound hats, ate tapeworms to achieve a smaller waist. Though, how is it different from modern anorexic-bulimic girls or those women overindulging in plastic surgery?
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Australia is a very special country regarding the history, flora and fauna, culture, and traditions. And if you want to find out more about all mentioned, you definitely should visit (in person or at least via online virtual tours) one or more of Australian folk museums. Their collections show both the aboriginal Australian culture (so old and so unique) and the period of European settlers coming to this faraway land in the early 1600s and throughout the 18th-20th century. Australia is a multicultural and multiethnic country, so it’s very interesting to learn Australian clothing traditions throughout the millennia of its existence.
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Women of different ethnic groups and different countries have been using jewelry with their national clothing throughout human history. At the same time, men wear considerably fewer jewels. Still, there are some really nice pieces. For example, in Poland, males of particular regions traditionally wore cute shirt buckles and shirt collar studs to fasten their folk shirts. Very few of them survived to this day, so we decided to exclusively show you these jewelry items preserved in Polish folk museums.
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The Viking women adored necklaces. A 10th-century Arab once said that the Vikings would “go to any length to get hold of colored beads” (Wernick, 94). So, colorful glass-beaded necklaces, stone necklaces, gold and silver beads were extremely popular in Scandinavia. Also, remember that Viking women wore traditional suspended dresses called “hangerock” with an obligatory row of beads at the chest – they hang different small useful items there, such as needles, scissors, keys, a whetstone, etc. So, beaded necklaces were deeply incorporated into the Scandinavian culture.
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Scotland of one of those countries that preserve their old traditions very carefully and thoroughly. The locals love their folk clothing and often use it, especially for such special occasions as weddings, funerals, official events, large national holidays, etc. Besides, Scots have a serious number of local folk museums where everybody can see Scottish traditional attire. Here’s a list of such museums.
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There are 17 regions in Spain, each of them has its own clothing traditions and the local folk dress, historically formed and preserved till this day. Sometimes, these outfits differ dramatically. Of course, there are dozens of curious and unique Spanish traditional garments, accessories, and jewelry pieces. But we wanted to choose 5 most typical and most interesting items of folk clothing to tell you about so that you could have an idea of how the national costume of Spain looks like. And this is our top-5 most typical Spanish traditional garments.
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In New Zealand, there is no single official national dress, every ethnic group uses its own folk costumes and has its own clothing traditions. But among the most popular traditional outfits of New Zealand are Māori costumes. These garments, accessories, and jewelry pieces are made from local plants, animal skins, bird feathers, etc, so they’re truly unique and characterize this island country perfectly. Let’s find out how Māori folk clothes look like.
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Palestinian embroidery styles – and folk clothing styles in general – were formed somewhere around the 2nd-3rd century B.C. and developed throughout the millennia after that. By the 10th century A.D., practically all of the rules, techniques, ornamentation symbols, etc were already established. They changed comparatively little since then. Let’s look at some of the characteristic features of Palestinian needlework. Did you know that a whole lot of European embroidery patterns were brought from the Arab world during the Crusades and incorporated here?
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Traditional clothing have always been used by various singers around the world for entourage in their music clips because it looks catchy and unusual. In some videos, we see rather accurate authentic clothing or vintage outfits, other artists use stylized costumes inspired by national clothes. But anyway, such costumes add charisma to the video. Just look at these outstanding Albanian-inspired outfits of Rita Ora and her dancers in the official video “Bang”.
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