The Traditional Romanian Costume from Transylvania from a Political and Commercial Perspective
The Traditional Romanian Costume from Transylvania from a Political and Commercial Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of the traditional costume from Transylvania was influenced by numerous factors, external to the peasant world, which are related to the political context, industrial development, trade relations or fashion of the countries of Western, Central or Eastern Europe. The idea of a completely autarchic system when it comes to describing the traditional village proves counterproductive, and the Romanian specialized ethnographic literature ignored the essential contribution of pre industrial and industrial materials and the role of elitist fashion in the evolution of peasant clothes. Also, some whims of history have unsuspected effects on areas that seem unrelated at first glance. Thus, we find that the traditional holiday shirt from the Hârtibaciului Valley area is related somehow to the history of the Napoleonic Wars and the friendship of an Ottoman pasha with a Viennese merchant of Macedonian origins.

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