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Slovak girl from Liptovská Lúžna circa 1933

By Karel/Karol Plicka

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Настенька и Иванушка - Морозко❄️ (1964)🇷🇺

Nastenka and Ivanushka - Morozko

Main characters from the classic, Russian film Морозко. It is traditionally watched every year on New Year's/Christmas.

Nastenka and Ivanushka are affectionate forms of the names Anastasia and Ivan in Russian.

This film also managed to be very popular in Czechia & Slovakia 🇨🇿🇸🇰 too, known as "Mrazík" over there. It is now a traditionally watched film.

Beautiful ending of the film, including wonderful Russian folk singing.

Rakvice🇨🇿

Some beautiful Moravian dresses/costumes from Rakvice, a village/municipality in the South East of Czechia🇨🇿.

This place has wonderfully preserved their beautiful culture.

You will notice with Moravian dresses, women tend to have large, puffy dresses with their distinctive huge, wide skirts and abundant petticoats underneath.

In many regions in South Moravia, men's costumes typically include a long white embellished ribbon with a decorated cockade on the right side of their vests as you can see above.

I managed to find some older photos from 1959 too♡

A traditional dress/costume in Czech & Slovak is called a "Kroj" (pronounced like kroi). I love how highly and beautifully embellished each garment is from here♡

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Bridesmaids' Farewell🕯️🇸🇰

A clip from "Svadba spod Poľany" (A wedding beneath the hilly fields) by Slovak folk group Lučnica in 1981♡

(Unfortunately, the quality has been damaged, but I really love the gentle, doleful singing and music, it truly reflects how the bride is feeling.)

For many girls, a wedding was a depressing event, as they'll no longer have the freedom they've had their whole life up untill then, and will have to start a new life as a mother, housewife and worker.

It was a tradition during "čepcenie" for a song to be sung about the bride parting away from her friends, or anything relating to the bride's change of life, often in an intimate setting with candles.

1. "Čepcenie" is when the bride has her wedding headdress taken off and has a bonnet put on, most happened on the following morning, but some had theirs during the wedding.

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Braids & Ribbons🎀

In most Slavic cultures, it was a tradition for unmarried girls to have their hair in braids, and in some cultures, tied with a ribbon too.

Once a girl got married, she would have to tuck and hide her hair in a headdress, headscarf or cap/bonnet. (I will talk more about this in my next posts)

In many cultures, as part of the marriage ceremony, girls would have their hair braided into two parts, then put into a crown hairstyle as shown above, before finally having their hair covered during or after the ceremony.

Braids and ribbons can symbolise a young girl's beauty and freedom

In many areas, ribbons are worn on the tail of the braids as shown above, at the top from the Łowicz region, Poland🇵🇱 & from the Brest (Брест) region, Пружаны, Belarus🇧🇾