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Costumes from Botosani
Women's costume: In Botosani, woman's costume has: the head dressing,
the shirt, a wide belt, sitoarea, the girth, barneata, catrinta, bondita,
sheepskin coat, suman and the shoes. The unmarried girls wore their heads
uncovered and they plaited their hair in pigtails. The married women
plaited their hair in pigtails one into the other and after that they
made everything into a loop called "panara". Men's costume:
Men's costume is formed out of: shirt, very tied
pants-"itari", money belt, the belt and shoes. The young boys,
to look better, they put peacock feathers on their hats. The everybody
shoes-"opinci" made out of pig skin and very rarely made out
of cattle skin.
Alina Olteanu
6th grade C
Eforie Nord School, Romania
Coordinator Iuliana Neacsu- Romanian teacher
iulianan@efnord.lefo.ro
Romanian costumes
We do not know what made Matisse paint the woman wearing a Romanian embroidered
shirt. We'll never be able to explain the artistic imagination. But we
do know that the artist himself is a refined one, so we are right to think
that his choice is a proof the costume's beauty. I'd say - and not only
because I'm a Romanian - that Romanians have the most beautiful and rich
in decoration popular costumes in the whole world.
The black and white represent basic elements in coloring. The immaculate
white of the male's shirt and that of the woman's embroidered shirt were,
usually, adorned with plenty of decorations sewed in white silk. The fantasy
went further and covered all these pieces with colorful rivers and waves,
the breast and sleeves often being real exhibition were fantastic motifs
are still amazing today. Either low-necked, folded round the neck with
a lace, woven from the finest silk (as in Romanian plain or Oltenia, or
made of linen, with rich embroideries (as in Apuseni mountains), or square
necked as in Maramures area, the Romanian embroidered shirts keep stirring
the admiration of the world.
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Over the long shirt covering the knee and going down to
the ankle, the Romanian woman wore the skirt, either made of a single
piece wrapped round the body, or made of two, one in the front and the
other behind. No matter how they were made, they had bright colors -red,
blue and yellow, o!
range and black, black with golden threads, or showing whole woven fields
covered with delicate embroideries in gold or silver thread. The sheepskin
coat adorned with tens of motifs everywhere, , the winter long fur coat,
made of sheep wool, also decorated, the sleeveless fur coats worn in Apuseni,
the beautiful brown cloth coats with black decorations in Bucovina have
all their artisans in the Romanian villages, each and every one of them
being a great artist.
The very way both women and man cover their heads would need pages to
be described. The floss silk scarves are simply royal ornaments, in as
much as the Maramures clop (hat) or the Astrakhan fur caps worn in most
of the Romanian zones are of a particular fun, often increased by the
faces expression. The stylistic variety of the Romanian folk costume is
infinite, always other in each zone. But all this variety of forms holds
a basic common trait, so that no matter from which zone the costume is,
anybody can immediately recognize it as Romanian. On Trajan's Column in
the Roman Forum in Rome, the Dacian on the bas-reliefs bear the costumes
of today's Romanian peasants. When, about one century ago, the inhabitants
of Rome saw Badea Cartzan (a peasant from Transylvania who walked all
the wa
y to Rome "to see his ancestors") sitting clad in his national
costume, under the Column, they exclaimed: "A Dacian climbed down
from the Column!" . It was a homage paid to a people that had preserved,
along millennia, its custom and traditions, its cultural beeing.There
are Romanian villages in which the popular costume is still included in
the daily life. In some others, invaded by the town fashion, these clothes
are carefully kept in old chests, preserved for ceremonies, for the church
service, or to be shown or even sold to occasional visitors. The Romanian
popular costumes don't need introduction. They can speak for themselves.
You'll be surprised to find out that they make up such a large universe
that only the moment and the sight can catch it. Not words. So you have
to see them to really understand their beauty.
Gabriela Tones,
"Grigore Moisil" Highschool, Romania
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