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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 .
Bast shoes are made from bast fibres. They were traditional shoes of the peoples of the taiga forests of northern Europe and Russia. Bast shoes were an item worn by the rural poor; leather was preferred in cities. Bast shoes were time-consuming to make. The bark from three or four saplings was soaked in a press for a long period.
Gomusin for men were modeled after "gatsin" (갖신), and ones for women were danghye (당혜). Gomusin first appeared in the early 20th century; they were easier to keep clean than danghye and jipsin (straw shoes) and they could be worn when during wet weather, attracting popularity and replacing traditional footwear.
Balgha (Arabic: البلغة, romanized: l-bəlġa), also spelled balga, belgha, or belga, are heelless slippers made from leather. 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.
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.
Cultural regions of Belarus are historical and ethnographic regions that are located in the boundaries of what is now Belarus and are distinguished by a set of ethnocultural features: ethnic history, nature of settlement, economic activities and tools, folk architecture, arts and crafts, traditional clothing, folklore and local dialects. [1]
Footwear offered by Pataugas in 1955. In 1953, after a visit to the United States, Elissabid added a model of boots called Texas to the company's offerings. As of February 2018, Pataugas offered 35 men's footwear options, 110 of women's, and about 15 for children, in addition to its first leather bag. [5]