Traditional & Historical Ethnic Dress

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fashion particular to certain cultures, traditions around the world...

Yaake in Africa

 

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Wodaabe in Africa

With a real feeling for style, a love of outlandish fashion and a great sense of fun, young Wodaabe men and women search for objects in the marketplace with which they can create new and exciting ornaments. Into their traditional festival attire they incorporate odds and ends that they feel will make them look more stunning.
Items such as suitcase locks and imitation gem stones are made into decorative neck pendants by the men, while the women add small hand mirrors to their embroidered skirt designs and hang torch bulbs beside leather amulet pouches as part of their decorative belts...

Pokot wearing blue skull cap...

Mangbetu wearing hat made of raffia

 

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Kasena hunters wearing 'batakar'

Hogon wearing iron and stone necklace

This man's wearing an outfit made of tree bark

 

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all images from Ethnic style: history and fashion by Bernice Geoffroy-Schneiter

 

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One more from the same book... /wikipedia

Burqa

A burqa (also burkha, burka or burqua) is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions for the purpose of cloaking the entire body. It is worn over the usual daily clothing (often a long dress or a shalwar kameez) and removed when the woman returns to the sanctuary of the household.

 

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oh my, gius, you did not just start this...

..see, I found a book in my grandma's library the other day, it's about.. ethnic fashion and tribes from all over the world, it's absolutely beautiful and fascinating.. I can't stop looking at it. I hope you don't mind a small bombarding, in a matter of minutes!.

 

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nah, i'm excited someone's already found the thread do please show us
some more from the same book...

Necklaces made from natural substances...

a good luck charm and hairpin

mbowlye turtle-shaped ornament

 

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Let's start with America.

Flathead Indians (Montana, United States)

Navajo Indians (New Mexico, Utah, Arizona. USA)

Blackfeet Indians (Alberta, Canada/ Montana, USA)

Apache Indians (United States/ Northern Mexico)

[all shot by me]

 

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America continued...

Jibaro indian (amazons)

Ojibway Indian (united states)

Ekimos (canada)

Kuna girl (Panama) (this is my favorite picture, love her clothes and expression )

Shipibo-Conibo Indian (Peru)

San Blas Indians (Mexico)

 

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gius, my apologies about the lack of color.. it's a book from the 50s.. there are some sporadic pages in color but nearly all of them are black and white.

also.. don't shoot me for taking photographs!.. the pages are too big to be scanned.. i hope that's an excuse and W magazine scanners stay away from denying the big lie.

 

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EUROPE.

Switzerland.

Bretagne (France)

Polish women.

Germany.

(tiara close-up )

Norwegian farmer.

Icelandic girls.

 

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love it, MP thank you~ i didn't notice they were all photos actually.. the quality still seems okay, unlike the one i took with the camera

the kuna girl you posted and the two women standing (post #9) that come after her photo, they're wearing molas Someone in my class brought a few of those.. her son is Mexican, I think. the technique they use is 'reverse appliqué'... you layer fabrics on top of eachother and cut out shapes/layers to reveal coloured layers underneath... these cut areas are then sewn down so it stays put.

some links
http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/kwirt/mola/molas.htm
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/mola_panama.htm

(from the first link)

 

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Europe continued...

...
Bavarian women.

Lower Saxony, Germany.

Hessen, Germany.

Black Forest.

Swedish girls.

Dutch woman (Huizen).

Switzerland.

Austrian alps.

 

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the kuna girl you posted and the two women standing (post #9) that come after her photo, they're wearing molas Someone in my class brought a few of those.. her son is Mexican, I think. the technique they use is 'reverse appliqué'... you layer fabrics on top of eachother and cut out shapes/layers to reveal coloured layers underneath... these cut areas are then sewn down so it stays put.

some links
http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/kwirt/mola/molas.htm
http://www.galenfrysinger.com/mola_panama.htm

(from the first link)

that sounds so interesting, gius, I've seen women doing those blouses about a dozen times and I never paid enough attention or even knew they had an specific name, shame on me!. I love the all-white molas, I think they're all from the Oaxaca region.. or perhaps Veracruz, I'm not sure.. but they're beautiful..

 

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Europe continued...

...
Bretagne (France)

Vendeé, France.

Molise, Italy.

Slovakia.

Hungarian skirts.

Finnish girl.

Caucasus man.

 

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i love the icelandic girls and the switzerland one and the Navajo indian accessories With the black and white i guess it's hard to tell if some parts in the necklace and bracelet are fabric or wood/jewel 　giving me some ideas

 

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Europe continued...

...

Sevilla, Spain.

Toledo, Spain.

Alicante, Spain.

Valencia, Spain.

Sevilla, Spain.

Basque region.

Toledo.

Salmantina.

[all shot by me]

 

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i love the icelandic girls and the switzerland one and the Navajo indian accessories With the black and white i guess it's hard to tell if some parts in the necklace and bracelet are fabric or wood/jewel 　giving me some ideas

oh I know!
it would all come to life if there was some color and the white was real white and not grey.. tut tut..

*I'll do africa and asia on wednesday!.

 

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Tsujigahana The Flower of Japanese Textile Art by Toshiko Itô

(Japan...)

 

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