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Folk costumes from Podhale region - costumes wear by Highlanders in Polish area of the Tatra Mountains, Podhale region. [1] Unlike other regional groups in Poland, Highlanders from Podhale wear traditional outfit (or its elements) on a daily basis. This type of outfit is widely considered one of the Polish national costumes. [2]
Parzenica embroidery on 19th century men's trousers, Podhale. Collection of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane. A parzenica is a heart-shaped traditional handicraft pattern and decorative folk art of the Goral people, who live in the mountainous region of southern Poland.
Talbot Hughes (1869–1942) was a British painter (of genre, history and landscape), a collector of historical costumes and miniature portraits, and a writer on fine art and costume design. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from the age of 17 until 1913.
Kraków region: [2] The woman's costume includes a white blouse, a vest that is embroidered and beaded on front and back, a floral full skirt, an apron, a red coral bead necklace, and lace-up boots. Unmarried women and girls may wear a flower wreath with ribbons while married women wear a white kerchief on their head.
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The shirtwaist, a costume with a bodice or waist tailored like a man's shirt with a high collar, was adopted for informal daywear and became the uniform of working women. Wool or tweed suit (clothing) called tailor-mades or (in French) tailleurs featured ankle-length skirts with matching jackets; ladies of fashion wore them with fox furs and ...
Stanislaw Witkiewicz once wrote on the idea of the Zakopane style: The idea was not to build yet one more beautiful, typical house. The focus was something else entirely: to build a home which would settle all existing doubts about the possibility of adapting folk architecture to the requirements deriving from the more complex and sophisticated needs of comfort and beauty.
The name Podhale literally translates as "below the mountains" in English. [2] It is a combination of two words. In the górals dialect, the Alpine tundra is called hala (plural: hale), "pod" in Polish is the English "under". The various Goral dialects of Polish as well as standard Polish are spoken in the region.