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The Welsh traditional costume (Welsh: Gwisg Gymreig draddodiadol) was worn by rural women in Wales.It was identified as being different from that worn by the rural women of England by many of the English visitors who toured Wales during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The Welsh hat first appeared during the late 1700s; [1] it became widely popular in the 1830s and over 380 examples are known to have survived. The Welsh hat was part of a traditional Welsh costume propagated by Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover [2] (1802–1896) but it is unlikely that she had much influence on anyone other than her friends and ...
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The traditional Welsh costume and Welsh hat were well known during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Princess Alexandrina Victoria (later Queen Victoria) had a hat made for her when she visited Wales in 1832. The hat was popularised by Sydney Curnow Vosper's 1908 painting Salem, but by then its use had declined. [28]
Dawnswyr Nantgarw (Nantgarw Dancers) dance alongside Ballet Cymru in WOMEX, Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Day of dance, Caerphilly Castle. The Welsh dance (Welsh: Dawns Gymreig), also known as the Welsh folk dance (Welsh: Dawnsio gwerin), is a traditional dance in Wales, performed to Welsh traditional music and while usually wearing a traditional Welsh costume.
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.
[1] The continued demand for Welsh goods during this era would allow the industry to become semi-industrialised. These new production processes would in turn lead to a greater variety of goods, especially new woollen caps such as the iconic Monmouth Cap (an obvious progenitor to the Welsh Wig). By the eighteenth century, Welsh wigs were a well ...
Welsh dress, 1905. The unique Welsh hat, which first made its appearance in the 1830s, was used as an icon of Wales from the 1840s. [36] From the 1880s, when the traditional costume had gone out of general use, selected elements of it became adopted as a national costume.