Starinska odića u širokobriješkoj okolici
Traditional Costumes of Široki Brijeg and its Surroundings

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses about traditional folk costume of Široki Brijeg and its surroundings. Raw materials and the materials from which the costumes were made, they had an important influence on clothing and certain parts of that clothing, too. Wool was the main raw materials in the past. Later, besides wool, in traditional costume people use factory material. Poverty, famine and the impossibility how to choice the raw materials did not stop people, primarily women and girls, to making garments with a lot of imagination. People wove on a loom and they punch, generate and adorn their clothes. Despite extremely poor conditions for living people knew for festive and everyday clothes, for ceremonial and everyday uniform. Because of centuries Turkish rule in this space, the clothing terminology is mostly of Turkish sign. Like all traditional in Herzegovina, so the costumes found its place in literary forms, too.

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