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Each&nbsp;cultural and geographical region&nbsp;has its own specific variety of costume that vary in style, material, color, shape, and form. Much of these regional costumes were influenced by the&nbsp;Austrian,&nbsp; Hungarian,&nbsp;German,&nbsp; Italian, or&nbsp;Ottoman Empire&nbsp;presence, due to whichever power ruled the region.

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The most stunning piece is the Romanian blouse, an important item of clothing within the traditional folk costume. Besides the typical cut and wide sleeves, the Romanian blouse is embellished with embroidery in natural colors,harmoniously combined.&nbsp;

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The Romanian Folk costume is wore by most romanian people on Romania's National Day wich is December 1st

The Romanian Folk costume is also still wore by older people that&nbsp;live in the countryside

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The song festival was first held in 1869 in Tartu under the guidance of the Estonian educator Johann Voldemar Jaannsen. Only men's choirs performed at the first celebration, and the total number of participants was about a thousand people. In 2019, the Song and Dance Celebration brought together 44 times more participants than the very first event, which was attended by 1020 teams. On the stage, the President of Estonia is side by side with schoolchildren, and the whole nation sings in unison under the guidance of a conductor. It is not surprising that this most important tradition for the people of Estonia is included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

The outer garments worn by both men and women are similar, the main differences being in cut and decoration which depend mainly on the region of provenance.These garments are usually made of sheepskin, or felted woolen fabric, and decorated with leather applique and silk embroidery.&nbsp; Traditional over garments&nbsp;became an expensive luxury, new garments only being purchased by people living in the very wealthy villages. However if you look closely in the more remote areas of Romania some older people still wear items of traditional clothing. Certain items of costume, specific to occupations, are still worn, for example men working in the forestry industry wear the wide leather belts (chimir), usually now over a T-shirt and jeans. Men's traditional fur hats (caliciulà) are still worn in winter in rural areas, and women usually wear a printed woolen scarf, and often a traditional straw hat over this&nbsp;

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Turkey is a country with old clothing traditions. Their roots are in the Ottoman Empire which has formed Turkish cultural and traditional heritage pretty much. Even hundreds of years after the Ottoman Empire, Turkish national costume has a lot of features typical for those days. But today few people in Turkey wear traditional clothing in day-to-day life. Men and women usually use European style of clothes or mix some elements of the folk dress with western pieces of attire.

There are 7 geographical regions of Turkey: Aegean, Black Sea, Central Anatolia, Eastern Anatolia, Marmara, Mediterranean and Southeastern Anatolia. Each one of them has its own clothing traditions and features of national costume. Traditional attire of various regions differs one from another much. So, let's talk about traditional clothing of each region separately. &nbsp;

To honor the homeland of the holiday, a fire similar to the Olympic one is carried across the country from Tartu to Tallinn. Another tradition is the use of traditional Estonian costumes, as well as a spectacular closing dance.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvO_vJBRFI&amp;t=100s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvO_vJBRFI&amp;t=100s</a>

Participants of the Song Festival arrive on the field as part of a solemn procession. The path from the Old Town to the Singing Field takes five kilometers. The holiday always begins with Tõnis Mägi's song "Koit" ("Dawn"), during which a fire lights up on the tower. The holiday ends with a work elevated to the status of an anthem - the poem "Mu isamaa on minu arm" ("My fatherland is my love") set to music by Alexander Cunilaid. 06/30 - 07/2/2023 XIII Youth Song and Dance Festival

One of the most amazing pieces of Turkish clothing is socks. They are handmade and very bright. A lot of different patterns are used. The yarn used for knitting is colorful, natural and warm.

Promotion of Estonian national clothes at the international level

- International festivals - Sotsial media marketing - Trade show marketing

The women's folk dance group Gevi was founded in 1964. The group includes representatives of many professions. In 2014, Gevi celebrates its 50th anniversary. The group has been in a higher category in the Republic of Estonia for 10 years. Gevi has won several high places in national competition dances. Has performed in Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Moscow, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, etc ..

For the female dress, attire consists of a plain white dress or blouse (košulja) or underskirt (skutići), which is usually the basic form of the costume. It is then added with other clothing and decorations, which may include another overdress or skirt (kotula), a decorative jacket (djaketa,&nbsp;paletun&nbsp;or&nbsp;koret), apron (ogrnjač&nbsp;or&nbsp;pregjača), scarf (ubrsac), kerchief or shawl which are usually decorated with a floral or animal motif. The embroidery is very intricate and is usually red, white, blue, gold, or black.

For the males, the national dress usually consists on loose, wide slacks (gaće / širkoke) and a shirt, and both are usually either black or white, or both. The man may wear a decorative or plain&nbsp;vest&nbsp;(fermen&nbsp;or&nbsp;jačerma), over his shirt, and possibly a&nbsp;waistcoat. The man almost always wears a cap, varying in shape and design depending on the region. The most famous cap is perhaps the&nbsp;Lika cap, worn in the&nbsp;Lika&nbsp;region for centuries by the people.&nbsp;

Estonians fashionistas are still those! A small country, but what a variety of national costumes has historically developed on its territory!

The general national attire of women in Estonia includes a long, free-cut shirt with puffed sleeves, over which a skirt or sundress was worn. An obligatory element of the outfit is a decorated or embroidered belt. On top of the skirt, with the help of a belt, a gaiter is attached, which is two pieces of fabric located at the level of the hips. In cool weather, a woman can cover her shoulders with a special embroidered veil - a syba, or put on a long fitted caftan. Married women cover their heads in a special way with a folded towel or a special cap. The national costume of men is less pretentious: loose-cut trousers, always belted with an original belt, a shirt decorated with ornaments and embroideries. A man's head is covered with small felt hats, and in the cold season - hats with earflaps sewn from natural fur.

ŞİLE CLOTH •Şile Cloth is woven in Şile district of İstanbul province. The history of Şile Cloth dates back to the settlement of Ottoman Turks in Şile. Greengrocers, who settled in Şile and its surroundings in the 14th century, became famous for their hand-woven products with linen. Şile Cloth, which carries the traces of many cultures.

A well-known part of Slavonian folk costumes is špencle or reklja…. Slavonia is a continental region in Croatia. Reklja is a men's jacket made of rolled wool. It is blue with a distinctive red-white pattern.

E-Twinning project "Youth has the Midas Touch 2.0"

International team №1 CLOTHING

Coordinators:&nbsp; Galina Safronova &amp; Deniz Akyol Students: Lavinia CTCFU, Antun ESPZ, Ekaterina.jvp, Fadime Sal, 9Befdal Sal, MariaD CTCFU, Bilgehan Hotal, Daria LPS

The State Folk Dances Society, which successfully represents Turkish culture and art,&nbsp;has been working for 25 years to apply our folk dances with a interpretation based on contemporary art understanding by taking advantage of its core values, to promote the cultural and folkloric values that our country has, thus to increase tourism movements towards our country and to contribute to our general promotion. Music and clothing are two integral elements of our traditional dances. In the community representations, they perform local music with various traditional folk instruments that the region brings together while preserving its music, instruments and tunes. The original and beautiful aspects of our garments were created by combining with dance technique without destroying the colors, embroidery, decoration and usage characteristics of the local garments brought from the site and examined and reproduced to be practical in use.

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TRADITIONAL TURKISH FABRICS The number of fabric varieties used by Turks throughout the history is quite high. Due to the fact that it is a material that wears out over time, few examples have reached the present day, and unfortunately most of them were lost in the dusty pages of history. The number of fabric types mentioned in the sources is around 650.

Lado the National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia was founded in 1949. in Zagreb as a professional state ensemble, with the aim of researching and artistically presenting on stage the many beautiful examples of Croatia's rich music and dance traditions.

Lado Promotional Video

CROATIAN TRADITIONAL CLOTHING

Since today Croats wear Western-style clothing on a daily basis, the&nbsp;national costumes&nbsp;are most often worn with connection to special events and celebrations, mostly at ethnic festivals, religious holidays, weddings, and by dancing groups who dance the traditional&nbsp;Croatian kolo, or circle dance.

Traditional "reklja" is a part of Croatian culture that today has taken on a modernist look and revived "reklja" and created a Croatian brand

•Romanian Folk Costumes The structure of Romanian traditional clothing has remained unchanged throughout history and can be traced back to the earliest times. The basic garment for both men and women in Romania is a shirt or chemise, which is made from hemp, linen or woolen fabric.This&nbsp;was tied round the waist using a fabric belt, narrow for women and wider for men. The cut of this basic chemise is similar for men and women. In the past those worn by women usually reached to the ankles while men shirts were shorter and worn over trousers&nbsp;or leggings made from strips of fabric.

Women always wear an apron over the chemise. This was initially a single piece but it became two separate aprons, one worn at the back and one at the front. Men's traditional clothing throughout Romania&nbsp;comprises a white shirt, white trousers, hat, belt. waistcoat and or overcoat. Local differences are indicated by shirt length, type of embroidery, trouser cut, hat shape, or waistcoat decoration. In most areas shirts are worn outside trousers, which is the older&nbsp;style. This is a basic Balkan man's costume largely uninfluenced by fashions from west or east. 

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