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Welsh hat. The Welsh hat (Welsh: Het Gymreig) worn by women as part of Welsh national costume is a tall hat, similar to a top hat, or the capotain. It is still worn by Welsh folk-dance women, and schoolgirls, in Wales on St David's Day, but rarely on other occasions. Two main shapes of Welsh hat were made during the 19th century: those with ...
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. It is very likely that what they wore was a survival of a pan ...
The Mari Lwyd (Welsh: Y Fari Lwyd, [ 1 ] [ə ˈvaːri ˈlʊi̯d] ⓘ) is a wassailing folk custom found in South Wales. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sheet. The custom was first recorded in 1800, with subsequent accounts ...
Welsh nationalism (Welsh: Cenedlaetholdeb Cymreig) emphasises the distinctiveness of Welsh language, culture, and history, and calls for more self-determination for Wales, which might include more devolved powers for the Senedd or full independence from the United Kingdom. While a sense of nationhood has existed within Wales for over 1500 years ...
A fascinator is a formal headpiece, a style of millinery. Since the 1990s, the term has referred to a type of formal headwear worn as an alternative to the hat; it is usually a large decorative design attached to a band or clip. In contrast to a hat, its function is purely ornamental: it covers very little of the head and offers little or no ...
Vintage Tea Dress. With over 9,000 ratings and 4.2 stars, this vintage-inspired tea dress is perfect for a fall wedding. Available in 41 colors (though, a few of which are white-adjacent, so we do ...
1920s in Western fashion. Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford on board the SS Lapland on their honeymoon, 1920. A drawing picturing French women's fashion, c.1921. Typical fashion in California, 1925. Tennis player, Australia, 1924. Western fashion in the 1920s underwent a modernization. Women's fashion continued to evolve from the ...
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