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                        The Romanian folk costume for men

Școala Gimnazială „prof. Ioan Dănilă”, sat Ghermănești, Ghermănești, Romania

      The Romanian folk costume represents a part of our history and we have the duty to keep it for the next generations as a sacred heritage.

    The costume of a peasant man is composed of a pair of long trousers called ițari or cioareci and a wide belt called chimir or șerpar (if it is made of leather) or brâu (made of woven textile) that is tied over a long shirt named ie.

Over the shirt they wear bundiță - an embroidered sheepskin vest or suman/cojoc - a long coat, a cold weather garment.

Every piece is handmade and decorated with Romanian traditional motifs.

On the head they wear a straw hat, a felt hat in the summer or a fur hat in the winter. The oldest type of footwear is peasant sandals called opinci or shoes and boots in other regions.

Suman

căciulă

opinci

cizme și chimir

THE ORIGIN OF THE ROMANIAN FOLK COSTUME

Seminarul Teologic  Ortodox „Sf. Ioan Gura de Aur", Husi, Romania

The Romanian folk costume finds its roots in the dress of our ancestors, the Geto-Dacians.  The long and wide cut of the shirt, the wide skirts for women, the thick skins have remained the same today.

Romanian folk costume

The Romanian folk costume finds its roots in the dress of our ancestors, the Geto-Dacians.

Testimonies about the origin of the Romanian port can be seen on Trajan's Column.

The long and wide cut of the shirt, the wide skirts for women, the thick skins have remained the same today.

Scoala Profesională nr.1, Cahul, Republic of Moldova

The national folk costume of Marmara Region in Turkey

Local clothes  and Traditional  Wedding Dress

Şehit Oğuzhan Aydınbelge Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi, Karapinar, Turkey

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ŞEHİT OGUZHAN AYDINBELGE MTAL

SENA/ŞOA MTAL

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KONYA KÜLTÜR GİYSİLERİ

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Used It is a type of weaving.

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KAZAK(OVERALS)

mille  hand knit outerwear

ŞALVAR

 
The net is very loose and marks the waist.  Wide trousers with zippered ends

KONYA NATIONAL CLOTHING  December as a headscarf ÇEMBER Used It is a type of weaving. KAZAK(ALL) wool and mille  hand knit outerwear ŞALVAR The net is very loose and marks the waist.  Wide trousers with zippered ends

ŞEHİT OĞUZHAN AYDINBELGE MTAL

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Konya local men's costume

The pieces of the costume are ismaliye tasseled belt at the waist, ahmedi woven shawl on a felt fez on the head, a shirt with a sile fabric dominant collar, a camedan sleeve pocket on the top, thread embroidered and festoon embroideries and a shalwar, a semi-netted shalwar unique to the Konya region.

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ŞEHİT OĞUZHAN AYDINBELGE MTAL

EGEAN Region  FOLK CLOTHES Turkiye

Turkey is a country with old clothing traditions. Their roots are in the Ottoman Empire which has formed Turkish cultural and traditional heritage pretty much. Even hundreds of years after the Ottoman Empire, Turkish national costume has a lot of features typical for those days. But today few people in Turkey wear traditional clothing in day-to-day life. Men usually use European style of clothes or mix some elements of the folk dress with western pieces of attire. Women wear national costumes more often,

Buca Necla - Tevfik Karadavut Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi, Buca, Turkey

                       Popular women's costume   

The women's folk costume consists of: shirt, lap and the piece that covers the part from the waist down that differs from one region to another. It also has different names depending on its shape and area, so it can be "catrință", "vâlnic", "fotă", "opreg". These pieces are woven from wool, with simpler or more complicated ornamentation depending on the outfit. Other pieces of the women's costume are the belts and belts that also present special artistic achievements. Characteristic of the women's costume from all regions is the use, as a background, of white, linen, hemp and woolen fabrics.

Seminarul Teologic Ortodox „Sf. Ioan Gura de Aur", Husi,Romania

                         The popular port of Transylvania

The Romanian folk costume fulfills characteristics similar to that of the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula, the differences being those of decorative and colorful details. Over the years, the structure and components of the Romanian folk costume have kept their essential characteristics unchanged. The making of the Romanian folk costume started from raw materials produced in the peasants' households but evolved over time. The folk costume has the same structure throughout the country but differs from one region to another in details such as cut, shape.

Colegiul National „Cuza Voda”, Husi,  Romania

In Transylvania, Bistrița-Năsăud County, the wearing of folk costumes on holidays is a true tradition and is practiced from the youngest to the oldest. The folk costume is over 100 years old, often bequeathed, from generation to generation. The women's folk costume consists of: naframa, shirt embroidered with folk motifs, belt, lapel, cloths, chest and opinci made of tanned ox or pig leather. The men's suit is simpler, consisting of a long shirt, tight long pants and are made of home-woven fabric on the loom. Over the shirt, men put on a hand-woven belt or a leather chimera.

                   The popular port of Dobrogea

The women's costume is represented by:

*shirt: richly ornamented, worked on white fabric woven in the house;

*lap: decorated only at the bottom, continuing the shirt pattern;

*barneata: belt - woven in the house, from canvas;

*bundita: sleeveless fur coat, made of sheepskin, richly decorated

with geometric and vegetable motifs.

Seminarul Teologic Ortodox „Sf. Ioan Gura de Aur", Husi,Romania

The men's suit is represented by:

• hat: made of lambskin;

• shirt: white, with embroidery made with arnica and silk, with geometric and floral motifs;

• chimir: belt woven during the war or made of leather, pureed over the shirt;

• itari: trousers made of a white fabric, made in house;

• bundita: sleeveless coat, made of sheepskin, richly decorated with geometric and vegetable motifs.

Moldavian Folk Costumes

Moldova is the area that has preserved the most archaic influences, and this is felt in the folk costume. Moldovian ,,ia'' is wrinkled and adorned with a multitude of embroidered patterns, the most commonly used colors being white, red, green and black.

Catrinta often has floral prints and is always dark in color. To support them, a woven belt is used, with a width of up to 12 cm.

 Also, the Moldovian folk costume is composed of an illic or a vest made of sheepskin or wool, on the surface of which are woven different ornamental motifs: straight or broken lines, solar or floral motifs (the most common are the bud and the pansy, but also the branch with leaves, which symbolizes the Tree of Life).

Seminarul Teologic Ortodox „Sf. Ioan Gura de Aur",Huși, Romania

The symbols found on Romanian folk costumes

Folk costumes represent the entire cultural heritage of the Romanian peasant. It is a unitary whole of legends, stories, fairy tales, fables, colors, deep meanings and hidden symbolism. It is about care and fascination, originality and preservation of tradition. They say a lot about the geographical area, the history, the tradition of each group.

These symbols were magical for our ancestors, or they were lucky, being used not only in clothing (ie, fur, chest, shirt, strings) and ornaments (cloth, headscarf, handkerchief), but also on common household items. .

The motifs vary greatly from flowers, leaves, fruits to birds, animals, geometric and abstract figures, cosmic elements.

Cosmic symbols speak of the connection with the sacred. They are usually ancestral symbols of divinity. The solar symbol represents the heat, the energy of life, and the circle-wheel represents the wheel of life, the cycle of the seasons.

Seminarul Teologic Ortodox „Sf. Ioan Gura de Aur",Huși, Romania

Floral and vegetable symbols

The tree and its branches are symbols of resurrection and wisdom

Zoomorphic symbols