What is your country's traditional costume?

[twilight fairy]

I searched for this and all I got was Costume National . (btw I'm not sure whether this should go into the Favourites section, but anyway..)
So I think it'll be great if everybody posted pictures of their country's national costume! I love seeing this..
I go to an international school and each year we have international evening, with international food and costumes. It's so interesting.

Anyway here's mine: Ukraine

And on the runway..the Jean Paul Gaultier collection, A/W 05. Jean Paul visited Ukraine and met the president's wife (who attended the show) and said that his collection was heavily inspired by the traditional Ukrainian costume.

Credit; style.com, http://home.earthlink.net/~okaczmar/, http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture, http://www.ukraineinfo.us, http://www.ecml.at

Now it's your turn. Post.

 

[twilight fairy]

Found a few more which I liked.

[SIZE=-1]www.ukrainian-n-things.com, photobank.kiev.ua


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[taz]

here is my little boy wearing a local dress for the kids during eid...



& cool thread twilight fairy...by the way ur costume is very happy, colorful & comfortable...I like it.

 

[litchickuk]

does england actually have one?

 

[faust]

does england actually have one?

sure

 

[stersita]

^

I guess Spain's are something like this:



but that's just a generalisation really.. each part has it's traditional costume.
This is the one from where I live. Couldn't find a bigger picture though.

 

[stersita]

^ whoops sorry forgot sources: esflamenco.com, usuarios.lycos.es and alfonso-garcia.com.

 

[Ce'nedra]

Chinese

There are different types of traditional Chinese clothing in each dynasty.

 

[Ce'nedra]

some pictures credited to : 1koo.com, digitaldreams.bbay.com, eden.rutgers.edu, chinaembassy.org.np

 

[Hana_N]

Vietnam.

http://www.thewonderingeye.co.uk/Images/vietnam_hoi_an_cyclist.jpg

http://www.mike37.org/ow_dailoc_05.jpg

http://img.pixelsucht.de/reiserat/vietnam_ao_dai.jpg

 

[waukon73]

I don't think American's have traditionaly clothing.

 

[softgrey]

americans INVENTED the jeans and the t-shirt...

THAT is our traditional costume......


*and don't forget the baseball cap......

 

[softgrey]

and of course there is the cowboy...

 

[model_mom]

yee haw.

 

[Caramel]

Oh, all those costumes are gorgeous, the Ukrainian, Chinese and Vietnamese ones!
Here are some examples of the Norwegian national costume, the bunad (there are different costumes for different regions of the country

Pictures from husfliden.no

 

[wildcard]

This is my Norwegian national costume, bunad; this one is called Oerskogbunad:

Pic from www.husfliden.no

 

[Caramel]

Some more:

 

[northernsky]

Now it's your turn. Post.

aye-aye.

there is no national traditional costume in germany but there are a few regions where traditional costumes ("trachten") are still worn. the sorbs are a cultural minority living in the province that i was born and raised in so i had to learn about the sorbic costumes in primary school but i never understood the different meanings of their countless costumes. i guess it's a big secret for everyone not an insider.

here is a picture from wikipedia.

 

[cloud9]

the traditional south korean costume "hanbok" B)

the last one is a picture of britney wearing a girls hanbok when she visited korea a while ago.

 

[cloud9]

and this is a kids version of it..



the pics are from http://honsoo.co.kr, www.hanboknara.co.kr, and http://www.playnews.co.kr