Maltese national costume

Romanian dress

The basic garment for both men and women is a shirt or chemise, which is made from hemp, linen or woollen fabric. This was tied round the waist using a fabric belt, narrow for women and wider for men. The cut of this basic chemise is similar for men and women. In the past those worn by women usually reached to the ankles while men's shirts were shorter and worn over trousers or leggings made from strips of fabric. Women always wear an apron over the chemise.

Men's traditional clothing throughout Romania comprises a white shirt (cămasă), white trousers, hat, belt, waistcoat and or overcoat. Local differences are indicated by shirt length, type of embroidery, trouser cut, hat shape, or waistcoat decoration. In most areas shirts are worn outside trousers, which is the older style. This is a basic Balkan man's costume largely uninfluenced by fashions from west or east. Hungarian and Saxon men living in Romania wear trousers with a more modern cut often made of dark material rather than white. This reflects their closer ties, and more frequent communication, with the west.

Men's and women's traditional dress has a lot of variation in Romania. These young men wear all-white costumes with embroidered vests and black hats and boots. The young men's pants are close fitting, and their tops are tunic-style shirts with bloused sleeves.

The official national costume of Filipino men is the barong tagalog. The upper garment of the boy in the picture is a barong. It is worn over a Chinese collarless shirt called camisa de Chino. The boy is also wearing the traditional wide-brimmed hat salakot, which is usually made of rattan or reeds.

Barong Tagalog, the official national costume of Filipino men, originated from the northern part of the Philippines, and is originally made of jusi or pineapple cloth called “pina” (woven from pineapple leaves). It is worn over a Chinese collarless shirt called camisa de Chino. It exhibits the loose, long lines of its Chinese sources, the airy tropical appearance of Indo-Malay costume, the elongated effect of Hindu dressing, and the ornamental restraint of European men's clothing. Today, barong tagalong can come from different materials and different colors. It is usually used for formal occasion and meetings

The official national costume of Filipina women is the baro at saya (= baro't saya). The baro is the top blouse. The saya is the skirt.

Maria Clara's dress was named after a mestiza heroine of one of the novels of the Philippine National hero Dr. Jose Rizal. Its origin was the national costume of Filipino women which is baro't (shirt) saya (skirt). The Maria Clara gown features a floor-length paneled skirt of silk or satin and it consists of four separate pieces: the collarless waist-length, bell sleeved camisa; the bubble-shaped, floor-length saya; the stiff, neck-covering paсuelo; and the hip-hugging, knee length tapis, or overskirt.

Maltese national costume

Women's clothes included the head covering known as ‘faldetta' or ‘ghonnella', or another head covering known as ‘cuqlana', a bodice and a skirt called ‘gezwira'. It is produced from multi-coloured warp threads in red, green, yellow, brown and black bound by undyed and black cotton. Another typical colour used in dying cotton fabric was the blue which was specifically dyed and sold by the Zabbar people.

Men's native dress: It is very unique in nature. The hat they adorn is a long bag made of wool, hanging down behind and dyed with various colours. The girdle round the loins is still in use among the Maltese of the lower order; that made of cotton is called "Terha", that of silk a bushakka. With this the pantaloons are confined round the waist, and are generally three or four yards in length. It is not common to see any in this dress with a jacket, its place being supplied by a sedria which, in many cases is ornamented down the front with several rows of round silver buttons.

Portugal:

Portuguese costume reveals a cultural and ethnic link to their Spanish relatives, with slight divergences to reflect Portugal's longer and distinct history. It is, interestingly, similar in many ways to Basque dress.

The first picture in the Portugal's section (the woman dressed in a red costume) is typical in Northern Portugal, specially in the Minho region, but that clothing in Portuguese folklore actually goes along with what we call the "A Noiva" (which literally means "The Bride"). "As Noivas" are women dressed in black with extremely beautiful pure gold necklace and garments. You can actually see a woman dressed in black in that picture, behind the lady in red, but you don't see the front partю\. They are associated to the city of Viana do Castelo and are mainly related to religious traditions related to the sea, but you can find them in many fishing towns in Northwestern Portugal. These garments are actually said to have been much more luxurious in the past, but the old fascist regime opressed them for over 50 years.

The other costume is what we call "Pauliteiros of Miranda do Douro" and are typical in Northeastern Portugal. They basically are men in skirts who dance at the sound of bagpipes (traditional Portuguese music) with sticks. These costumes are unique in Portuguese folklore, you won't find them anywhere in Spain, not even Galicia. They are typical in the city of Miranda do Douro, but you can find them now all over the country where the Portuguese bagpipe is played (Portuguese people play 2 types of bagpipes - the Galician one and the "transmontana", commonly known as the "Portuguese bagpipe" with a much stronger sound, perfect for outdoor performances).

Unlike the Scotts, Portuguese bagpipers are not allowed to use skirts, only young male dancers should use them. These bagpipers use a type of costume that is, in my opinion, very similar to other folk dances all over the country.

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