Costumul popular al pădurencelor între vechi și nou

Abstract

The ethnographic region of the Land of Forest Ingabitants has a number of features that make it unique not only in the Romanian space, but throughout the world. Women’s folk costume differs a great deal in its peculiarity, in particular in ornamentation, in stitch features and decorations along the hips. The predominant colors are red and black with purple, green, yellow and blue inserts. Headgears also differ in their specificity, peculiar only to the forest women. The traditions of their folk costume date back to immemorial times and, sacredly preserved for centuries, retain their basic features unchanged. Currently, there is a certain tendency in the modernization of the Romanian peasant homespun skirts (catrinţe), but without affecting the overwhelming majority of the traditions of the Forest Women. Thus, the folk costume retains its worthy place in the heritage of our national costumes as an element of material culture with deep ethnic connotation

Keywords

• ffolk costume
• ethnographic region
• the Land of Forest Ingabitants
• tradition