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A Greek fisherman's cap. A mariner's cap, also called a skipper's cap, sailor's cap, Dutch Boy's cap, Greek cap, fiddler's cap, or breton cap, is a peaked cap, usually made from black or navy blue wool felt, but also from corduroy or blue denim.
Headgear is worn for many purposes, including protection against the elements, decoration, or for religious or cultural reasons, including social conventions. This is a list of headgear, both modern and historical.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Amalia created a romantic folksy court dress, which became a national Greek costume still known as the Amalía dress. [3] It follows the Biedermeier style, with a loose-fitting, white cotton or silk shirt, often decorated with lace at the neck and handcuffs, over which a richly embroidered jacket or vest is worn, usually of dark blue or claret ...
Volunteers from Annunciation's Philoptochos Society of Akron and Kalymnian Society of Campbell, Ohio, baked 400 loaves of tsourekia, a braided sweet Easter bread, Tuesday for Annunciation's Easter ...
The original civilian variant of the peaked cap was widely worn by sailors and workers from the mid 19th century onwards. These were made of wool or canvas, and sometimes waterproofed with tar. During the 1960s, blue denim Greek fisherman's caps became an essential accessory for the counterculture due to their use by John Lennon of the Beatles.
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.
Thracian clothing refers to types of clothing worn mainly by Thracians, Dacians [1] but also by some Greeks. [2] Its best literal descriptions are given by Herodotus [3] and Xenophon in his Anabasis. [1] Depictions are found in a great number of Greek vases and there are a few Persian representations as well. In contrast to shapes and patterns ...