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Khv tcf. Moldavian folk costumes. Socrates-Comenius Name: Stan Alexandra Romania. Moldavian popular costume. The moldavian costumes has its own specificity and its component elements have developed continuously achieving a structural particularity.
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Moldavian folk costumes • Socrates-Comenius • Name: Stan Alexandra • Romania
The moldavian costumes has its own specificity and its component elements have developed continuously achieving a structural particularity.
Both in the plain area and the mountainous area, the polychromatic ornamentation of the women’s shirts has a harmonious combination with that of the fur coat, contrasts with the dark background of the peasant woman’s skirt, crossed by small colored stripes all of them forming a whole of a unique artistic beauty. • The white background of the men’s shirtis bedecked with discrete embroideries and sometimes the same reasons are sewn also on the fur coat.
The popular contemporary Hulsullian costume has a great resemblance with the Romanian one and this shows important problems of ethnographic mutual influence in this contact between Romanians and Ukrainians.
This costume presents remarkable features not only by the sobriety of its line but also by the decorative elements of an exquisite artistic nature. • A piece of great importance in the feminine costume was the crape, that is the scarf worn on the head
The feminine shirt contributes to the specificity of the popular costume from that part of the country. From the historic researches it comes out that its origin is Dacian and its simple form obtained by the folding of the cloth widths from which the front part, the back and the sleeves are made as well as the shirt cut show its primitive origin.
In Moldavia there are two types of shirts: • -the kink shirt with sleeves attached to the neck • -the shirt without kink and the sleeves attached to the shoulders. • The most wide spread and the most beautifully ornamented shirt is the one with a kink at the neck.
The materials used for these shirts are:hemp cloth especially from linen retted in the dew, a customs from the mountainous areas and for the embroideries of the ornaments they used wooden threads. • The colors used in the making of the embroideries are black, red, carmine, orange, yellow, blue and the ornamental motifs fall into three categories:geometrical, vegetal and zoomorphic.
The masculine costume is characterized by the white cloth tight trousers following lightly the body lines. On holydays they wore jack boots . • The long-sleeved shirt open reaching almost the knees is tightened with a beautifull ornamented girdle. • Over the shirt, in summer, they wore a black vest and in the cold seasonand winter the flowered breastplate (fur coat buttoned on one shoulder ) on top of which they put on the thick long coat
In summer men wear hats with large brims and in winter the lamb fur hat with a pointed top. • So the popular costume from Moldavia has a special artistic distinction but its basic elements are still common