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Bast shoes are shoes made primarily from bast — fiber taken from the bark of trees such as linden. They are a kind of basket, woven and fitted to the shape of a foot. Bast shoes are a traditional footwear of the forest areas of Northeastern Europe, formerly worn by poorer members of the Finnic peoples, Balts, Russians, and Belarusians. They ...
This category describes traditional and historic Belarusian clothing. Modern Polish clothing should be included in: Category:Belarusian fashion . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Traditional clothing of Belarus .
The Belarusian senior group earned bronze at the 2012 London Olympics. Andrei Arlovski, who was born in Babruysk, Byelorussian SSR, is a current UFC fighter and the former UFC heavyweight champion of the world. Belarus featured a men's national team in beach volleyball that competed at the 2018–2020 CEV Beach Volleyball Continental Cup. [18]
The Belarusian, Ukrainian and Georgian armies eventually abandoned them in favor of socks in the 2000s. [2] [6] In each case, nostalgia about the traditional footwear ran high among soldiers. The Ukrainian army held a special farewell ceremony for its footwraps, with soldiers reciting poems and fables about them.
Opanci are traditional peasant shoes worn in Southeastern Europe (specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and also Romania and Albania). The attributes of the opanci (name in plural) are a construction of leather , lack of laces, durable, and various endings on toes.
also: People: By gender: Men: By nationality: Belarusian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Belarusian men . Articles on individual men should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
They are part of traditional dresses of the Maghreb region. [1] Balghas are worn by men and women of all social classes, both in urban and rural areas. Sources
As of 2021, footwear is the 30th most traded category internationally; [41] but, while China produces well over 60% of exported footwear, [42] it currently earns less than 36% of the value of the total trade [43] owing to the continuing importance of American, German, and other brands in the North American and European markets.