Der Capuchon - vom modischen Zubehör um 1850 zur Kirchentracht in Kronstadt-Bartholomä
The "Capuchon" - from fashionable accessory around 1850 to the church dress in Kronstadt-Bartholomä

Summary/Abstract: The author Discusses the use of the "Capuchon", a woman's cap used in the middle of the 19th century as a fashionable accessory by young women. In Barholomä, a suburb of the South-eastern Transylvanian town of Kronstadt (Braşov), the "capuchon" became a local tradition as a winter church dress, used to mark the difference between the womans from Bartholomä and those from the proper town until the period between the two World Wars. Bartholomä as a suburb took part in the rural as well as the urban life and fulfilled in this way the function of a bridge between these two spheres, symbolized in the habits of clothing.

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