Traditional folk dress

Today there was a MIFA(Meguro International Friendship Association) festival near my place. People from all over the world gather & enjoy various cultural events. There were ethnic clothes try-ons, performance of a drumming circle, dances etc.. www.mifa.jp/ This is a traditional Polish ethnic dress with a very intricate & delicate embroidery.

Hello all, Today i will talk a bit about the women's Costume of the central Dalmatian Coast. There are several variants of this costume, but I have more information on the what is considered the daily costume of Split than any of the others, so I will cover it in more detail. The formal 'Town Costume' which is more well known, will be the subject of my next posting. This costume first developed in a village on the very outskirts of Split called Veli Varoš, but has been adopted by the town…

Mexican national clothing is very bright and beautiful. Actually, there are many different designs of traditional costume. Some of them are used for celebrations and holidays, some – for ceremonies, some – for festivals. The main characteristics of Mexican national attire are: sun protection (that's why sombrero has such a wide brims and the clothing itself is made of natural materials), brightness (the fabric for garments is mostly colorful and heavily embroidered; a lot of colorful ribbons…

Costumes from Istria

Ensemble Date: 19th century Culture: Romanian Medium: [no medium available] Dimensions: [no dimensions available] Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1908 Accession Number: 08.243a–e

Sonderjylland, Denmark. Folk dresses.

This object was collected by Stewart Culin (1858-1929) during a collection expedition in 1922. Culin was the Brooklyn Museum's first Curator of Ethnology, serving from 1903 to 1929. Possessing an insatiable curiosity and appetite for collecting objects of all kinds, Culin conducted over twenty worldwide collecting expeditions between 1901 and 1928

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folk costume - Slovakia

I haven’t featured one of these costumes in quite a while, but let me share one today! The Warmia Region of Poland had their own outfit. The region we are showing here is in the northeast part of Poland - near the Russian border and near Lithuania: it was inhabited by a Prussian group of people.

Dress | Greek | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

I am learning about the dress of my ancestors and making a traditional Karelian outfit. The first layer is called a "rätsinä" shirt.

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Hello all, Today I will talk about one of the most complicated costumes of Greece, that of the Karagounai. The Karagouni are an ethnic group which inhabit the lowlands of western Thessaly, just east of the Pindus mountains. They mostly inhabit villages in the area surrounding the cities of Trikala, Karditsa, Sofades and Palamas. Some villages in the area are still inhabited solely by Karagouni. Here is a map of Thessaly. They have retained their folk costume longer than many parts of Greece…