National Costumes 

             of Turkey

Country: Turkey

Traditional dress of Aegean region:

Women's attire consists of a long robe, baggy trousers, a short jacket, an apron, several head scarves (sometimes with a fez), slippers, and a lot of jewelry. Traditional fabrics are silk, velvet, and cotton. Every piece of clothing is embroidered or embellished. Different patterns of fabric are popular, but the most common are colorful stripes.

 Men's attire consists of short baggy trousers, a jacket, a shirt, a wide belt, a neckerchief, a headgear, socks, and slippers or boots. Male clothing is also rather bright and colorful, embroidered and decorated with jewelry. Stripes are the most popular among patterns on fabric. The headdress can be very interesting, high and unusual (not only fez or turban).

Country: Turkey

Traditional dress of Black Sea region

Women's attire consists of a peştemal (it is a piece of linen, usually striped, wrapped around the waist), a shawl called "keşan" (which covers the head, torso, and face), socks and shoes or slippers. In some parts of Black Sea region women also use blue aprons, in other female costume consists of a dress made of black silk brocade and a bright orange waistcloth. But still, peştemal and keşan are considered to be the national clothing of Black Sea region of Turkey. Typical colors of garments of this region are black, orange, burgundy, crimson and brown. Stripes are often used.Men's attire consists of baggy trousers (called "şalvar" or "shalwar kameez"), a shirt, a jacket (it often was a yelek – Ottoman male jacket with hanging sleeves), a headdress, socks, and shoes or boots.

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Traditional dress of Central Anatolia

Women's attire consists of baggy trousers, a skirt, an apron, a shirt, a jacket, a belt a headdress, socks, and shoes. Central Anatolian dress is very rich, colorful and embellished. Silk, velvet, cotton and woolen cloth are popular.Men's attire consists of long or short baggy trousers, a shirt, a yelek  or another jacket, a wide belt, headgear, socks, and boots or shoes. The most used colors are blue, red, yellow and black. The striped fabric is also used sometimes. The male costume has less embellishment  than female one. But every festive Turkish costume should be equipped with a weapon. Central Anatolian men's garment is no exception.

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Traditional dress of Eastern Anatolia

Women's attire consists of baggy trousers, a long skirt, robe or dress, a shirt, a jacket, a wide belt, a scarf or other headdress, socks and shoes or slippers. As well as in other regions of Turkey, in Eastern Anatolia women wear many layers of clothes. The whole body is covered with clothing. Garments are bright and colorful, the red color is one of the most popular. Fabrics with floral patterns are widespread. Women don't use lots of jewelry. The clothing is often pretty simple but can look rather festive even without much jewelry.

Men's attire consists of baggy trousers, a shirt, a jacket (today it is sometimes replaced by a vest), a wide belt, a headgear, socks, and shoes or boots. Kurdish costume usually consists of a long robe, a shirt or undershirt, a wide belt, a headscarf, socks and shoes. Men's modern costume often looks pretty European-style; only şalvar trousers give some Turkish flavor to the garment.

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Traditional dress of Marmara region

Women's attire consists of very wide baggy trousers, a long-sleeved vest, a jacket, a belt, a headgear, socks, and shoes. Sometimes an apron is also used. Another variant of folk dress consists of embroidered underpants and long undershirt, a skirt, a jacket, a kerchief on the waist, a belt, a headdress, socks, and shoes. Clothes look multilayer, puffy and rather checkered because of rich embroidery.Men's attire consists of rather narrow baggy trousers, a shirt, a vest, a hand towel, worn on the waist belt, another towel, worn across the shoulders, a headdress, high socks and shoes. Male costume, same as female, is richly embroidered and embellished. It is also bright, puffy and multilayer. The shirt is usually striped. A bag, weapons, and a tobacco purse complement the image.

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Traditional dress of Mediterranean region

Women's attire consists of a skirt or dress (below the knee long), a shirt, a jacket, a headdress or kerchief, socks, and shoes. The costume is very bright and colorful. The most common colors are red, blue and yellow. The striped cloth is often used for dresses, skirts, and shirts. The clothing looks rich, embellished and multilayer. Men's attire consists of baggy trousers (tucked into socks), a shirt, a jacket, a wide belt, a headgear, high socks and shoes. Male traditional costume looks rather simple but festive. It's a strict beauty. The color of trousers and jackets is dark: black, brown or blue. But jackets are embellished with embroidery. The belts are colorful and fall into the eye.

Country: Turkey

Traditional dress of Southeastern Anatolia

Women's attire consists of a long dress, a caftan (a long robe), a belt, a headscarf or other headdress, socks and shoes. Folk dress of this region is rather laconic, it has only few layers. It looks very feminine and tender. But still, the whole body should be covered with clothes. The pieces of attire are embellished with embroidery and jewelry, but moderately, not as richly as in some other regions.

Men's attire consists of baggy trousers, a shirt, a robe (knee-long or just above the knee) or a jacket, a wide belt or kerchief around the waist, a headdress, socks, and shoes or boots. The clothing looks pretty simple, without much embellishment. The outerwear (caftan, jacket, vest or robe) is usually embroidered.

        NATIONAL COSTUMES 

           OF BULGARIA

Students and teachers from National High School of Arts "Tsanko Lavrenov", Plovdvi

Bulgarian traditional costumes

 are divided into different types according to the region. These are traditional costumes for Shops, around the capital of Bulgaria. It consists of white shirt with typical Bulgarian red embroidery on it called "shevitsa". The gown is black with golden ornaments and there is also a belt. The shoes are called "skarpini" and are made of leather. The male costume is the same apart from the jacket which is white with black "shevitsa.

Dobrudjan typical Bulgarian costume

It is typical for the Dobrudjan region of Bulgaria which is north-south close to the seaside. It contists of white shirt and red dress with typical Bulgarian ornaments called "shevitsa", which is hand-made broidery. This time there is also an apron on which there is embroidery with golden coins. There should also be a flower wreath on the head. The shoes should be black.

Rodopian Bulgarian traditional costumes

These costumes are typical for the regions around Rodopa mountain. It consists of white shirt, black gown with hand-made embroidery on it. This time there is a long apron which should be chequered which makes it typical for the region. There is a black jacket with embroidery. The male costume consists of white shirt, black trousers and a special belt made of leather. There is also a long red belt which is wrapped a few times around the waist. There is a black hat called "kalpak".

Trakian Bulglarian typical costume

This costume consists of white shirt with many hand-made embroidery. There is the gown which is chequered and has emroideries. There is a black apron with embroidey made of suede. Here is a special belt made of copper which is very expensive. There is a flower wreath on the head.

All costumes have also their typical dances called "horo". They consist of different steps and tacts.

National Costumes of  Malta

Women's traditional clothing

Women's clothes included the head covering known as ‘faldetta' or ‘ghonnella', or another head covering known as ‘cuqlana', a bodice and a skirt called ‘gezwira'. It is produced from multicoloured warp threads in red, green, yellow, brown and black bound by undyed and black cotton. 

Women's traditional clothing

Cuqlana

L-ghonella

Men's traditional clothing