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The Bulgarian national garbs appear from the Bulgarian National Revival to the middle of 20th century. The women's costume are composed of: pinafore, skirt, buckles, apron, Bulgarian jewelry and others. The men's costume are composed of: full-bottomed breeches, girdle, vest, shirt and others.
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity. If the clothing is that of an ethnic group, it may also be called ethnic clothing or ethnic dress.
Bulgarian folk costume A decorated horse, prepared for a race. Horseraces take place each year to mark Todorovden (St. Theodore's day). Bulgarians often give each other a martenitsa ( мартеница ) — an adornment made of white and red yarn and worn on the wrist or pinned on the clothes — from March 1 until the end of the month.
Bulgarian folk dancers in a national costume with embroidery on the penultimate row of the aprons showing the most spread Slavic cryptogram Bur [177] with a cross inside the rhombus representing the sun and spirals indicating rain, [178] which is similarly represented as the Rising Sun [179] decorative pattern of the Flag of Belarus.
Kukeri dancing in Kalipetrovo. Kukeri is a divinity personifying fecundity. Sometimes in Bulgaria and Serbia it is a plural divinity. In Bulgaria, a ritual spectacle of spring (a sort of carnival) takes place after a scenario of folk theatre, in which Kuker's role is interpreted by a man attired in a sheep- or goat-pelt, wearing a horned mask and girded with a large wooden phallus.
Many Bulgarian dances are line dances, with the dancers holding hands in a straight or curved line, facing in toward the center of the dance space.Originally men and women danced in separate lines, or in a gender-segregated line in which the last woman and first man held opposite ends of a handkerchief, to avoid gender contact but today men and women often dance in mixed lines.
Bulgarian folk culture (5 C) Food and drink in Bulgaria (3 C) H. Bulgarian heraldry (1 C) Cultural history of Bulgaria (4 C, 1 P) L. Languages of Bulgaria (6 C, 10 P)
Other Bulgarian customs, specific for Bulgaria, worship God, the saints, the nature, the health, and chase away bad spirits : St. Andrew's Day - 30 November;