Costumes from Chioar
Popular costume is one of the important parts of popular creation, with
artistic value, a Chioar area bought it in defining the folchlore from
north Transilvania. The prime materials used are linen, hemp and wool.
Children's popular costume from past from Chioar area is froming in Romanian's
specific. The letle girls are wearing short hair, with no ornament in
the hair.When is cold or rainy, the head is covered with a fur
cap with flower ornaments. In summre they wear headbercheef from the fair
or their with the head uncovered. The important piece is the shert. The
boys and girls cant wear it and you can dress with it in all the seasons.
The shirt is long, it is almost to the hemp and lumbac. Like the adults
children are wearing " opinci". The women are wearing a shirt
with
a square "erai" in front of the neck. The shirt has on the lap
and on the sluves lace made at home. Her colour is most of the time white.
Over the shirt they wear a colored blouse. Over the shirt wich is long
until the ankels ,they wear a " zadie " made of wool. The men
are wearing a shirt made from cloth of helm and bumbac. The holiday shirt
has more types:
shirt with flower ornamental( wore by the young); shirt with withe thread
seam ornamental( wore by the olds). The shirt's ornament can be made by
rhambus. Another element is " guba" wich has long wool threads
on all its surface. On waist they wear a belt wich can be three cm broad
or ten cm.
the pants that the men are wearing are called "cioareci". Like
the children the men are wearing" opinci" except in special
ocsions when men they wear boots bought from the fair. The tradittional
popular costume from Chioar area is the popular inclination for beautiful.
Alexandra Proca -7th grade A
Eforie Nord School Romanian
Coordinator - Iuliana Neacsu romanian teacher
iulianan @ efnord.lefo.ro.
Folk Costumes
Romanian folklore is represented by people at the traditional costumes
fairy tales and poetry, but
even the popular songs.The musicians who sing
traditional songs are a lot including : Ion
Bocsa,Veta Biris , etc. By their songs musicians
looked for a way to put in our souls the love and the
life in each zone of the country .The traditional
costumes are made by people manual and they need a lot
of time and inspiration.
In our days the Romanian folklore exist in the North side of
the country, in Moldova and Transilvania.
Ramneantu Ionel, 7th grade A
Eforie Nord School,Romania
Coordinator Iuliana Neacsu-Romanian teacher
iulianan@efnord.lefo.ro
Costumes from Dolj
The Romanian folklore includes literary designs, traditional costumes,
customs and rituals. The traditional costume has an important place because
of its beauty Women's costume Age difference of women costume in Dolj
has aspects on the head's ornament. The structure is the same with small
differences. The little girls wear two braided tails on their heads and
knotted on the forehead with thread or string knitted in the prolong of
the tails. The girls wear one braided tail. The tail is made loops of
hair at the
nape. In summer they walk with their heads uncovered, but in the winter
they walk with head kerchiefs from wool. In their hair they wear flowers.
After marriage the way that their hair was made is kept but the new social
statute impose that the head is covered on work days also in holidays.
On holidays it was use the white kerchief in a triangular shape with corners
from colored beads. The hat is going to be replace with the head kerchief.
Around the neck, girls and women from the rich families had necklace.
The poor girls wear beads. On their hands they wear bone bracelets. From
the women costume the chemise and the embroidered are the basic pieces.
The chemise can have the sleeves catch from the shoulders. The old chemise
had summary decorations. The decorations were sew. The black color dominates.
The girls chemise had many decorations but they used few colors (red or
cherry color). The sleeves were the most interesting things from the women
costume. The sleeves were divided in three parts: "altita",
and "riuri". The geometric forms were made with the needle.
On the chest and on the back of the chemise it was take a form from altita
and it was repeated and were made decorations. The impression of order,
balance and harmony is the dominant note not only
at the chemise but also at other pieces of the costume- peasant skirt,
"valnice", "sube". The XIX century and the second
half of our century times changed. Those changes altered the style of
the pieces decorations, a new material
for decorations appeared like bad and silk and new colors. One consequence
of these changes was the renunciation of the organization way to the decor
chemise in altita, and riuri. This one were proceed whole surface of the
levee. In a village or in a village group it was working by the old methods
and in the new style at the same times. The young girls were the first
that started to wear the new style. Others pieces with the same value
from the costume are peasant skirt, valnitele and prestelcile. If we take
them by the morphology structure we get three types: Valnicul
and zavelcea incretite. With them the body was covered.
The second type is peasant skirt. The peasant skirt is made from two rectangular
pieces of equal size. The women wear one in back and one in front. The
third type are prestelcile. They are made from two pieces. One piece
is larger than the other one. The other piece is the size of peasant skirt.
Valnicul, costume piece for winter is made from wool. Valnicul is thicker
than zavelci , peasant skirt and "prestelci". At the structure
difference is how are they decorated. For "valnice" and "zavelci"
the decor is vertical,
at peasant skirt and "prestelci" the decor is horizontal.
Another piece from the costume is the belt. It is made from wool. "Suba"
is worn in the winter. "Suba" had the sleeves catch from shoulders.
A similar piece with "suba", wear by the rich one is "giubeaua"."Giubeaua"
doesn't has sleeves. She is worn by women and men. Traditional women costume
that was presented is from Dolj. This costume can be seen in museums because
people renounced the traditional costumes.
Tabuica Diana, 6th grade C
Eforie Nord School, Romania
Coordinator Iuliana Neacsu- Romanian teacher
