In the past, girls from rural southeastern Europe spent their
childhoods weaving, sewing, and embroidering festive dress so that
upon reaching puberty they could join the Sunday afternoon village
dances garbed in resplendent attire. These extremely colorful and
intensely worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace,
metallic threads, coins, sequins, beads, and, perhaps most
importantly, fringe, a symbolic marker of fertility. Over time new
forms of dress were added, so that by 1900, a southeastern European
village woman's apparel consisted of millennia of layered history.
Even today this dress continues to be worn on festive occasions and
by older people in rural areas.
Lavishly illustrated, "Resplendent Dress" from Southeastern
Europe features fifty stunning nineteenth- and twentieth-century
ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and
neighboring countries, plus one hundred individual items, including
aprons, vests, jackets, and robes. Elizabeth Wayland Barber traces
this twenty-thousand-year tradition of dress in fascinating
detail.
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