European folk clothing is a bit of a weird beast, because some of it is genuinely the clothes worn by the common people, and some of it is well off city people making cottagecore outfits. Also, depending on the region, the folk costumes are either treated like a uniform with very strict rules and little room for self expression, or like regular clothing that has its own fashion trends and changes with time.
I'm also wondering if certain regions even have any set "folk" clothing at all? Bavaria has its outfits intentionally .. but for example the rest of Germany and France I can't think of too much from?
@@wednes3dayyes, there are SO many folk costumes across germany and france! you don’t see them bc unlike the generalized austrian/bavarian costume they remain highly regional and somewhat obscure.
@@lady_sir_knight3713 I'm guessing you would have to go into the villages? Idk, I've tried to look for something for a certain region and literally all that came up were maybe at most 2 old photographs per village (if that) on pretty much a single website
My mothers family was from Lithuania. Lithuanians who moved to the U.S. formed Lithuanian Clubs. My mother had a folk costume a bit like yours. I love the history behind the folk costume. I am glad your are keeping the history alive. Thank you.
@@lady_sir_knight3713yes, also unlike in Bavaria and Austria, they have mostly not been worn for quite some time except for dedicated folk festivals etc.
In Austria we have this sentence: "if every woman would wear a Dirndl (= our folk costume), there would be no ugliness in the world." After watching you in this amazing outfit, I think the correct sentence would be: "if every woman would wear the folk costume of her home country, there would be no ugliness in the world." You look stunningly beautiful! May we all keep our traditions alive and make the world more beautiful around us. Greetings from Austria 😍
Beautiful dress! Just an FYI. Kashubians were some of the first Polish settlers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They settled on what is called Jones Island and fished Lake Michigan. Jones Island has an interesting history. Sort of set apart from the main city of Milwaukee. Being from Milwaukee County and knowing these people were called "Kashubes"(although I never knew why), my curiosity of peaked. I don't know if you would be interested or not, but there is a lot on the Internet about it. Always enjoy your videos.
That's so cool you are from Poland. I'm half Polish, and have made a few Polish folk costumes in the past, although in a much smaller scale, for dolls! Your videos are a great help making historic costumes too.
Absolutely gorgeous ❤ I love that countries used to have such beautiful and functional garments in history. Would love to see more of historical Polish dress, have seen some of Karolina Zebrowska's videos on more modern garments and it's so cool to see!
Thank you for this. We Americans get rather peeved when people think there is only one region that is "American" but we forget that Europe is also a multi-regional/ethnic/ country place with more unique cultures than our little minds can imagine. There is such a rich history in one outfit.
I love your Kashubian folk dress ! It resembles some of the norwegian "bunads". (festive folk dresses wich are extremely popular). Normally people wear bunads related to their origin. My present bunad is from Hardanger, in the western fjords area, but as a toddler I had a Dirndl. A gift from german family friends. I have both norwegian, swedish, and icelandic ancestry, so can choose folk dresses from several places. I'd like to get an icelandic folk dress. In black silk with gold emboidery, and a hennin head dress ! Love from Norway 🇳🇴
Just finished re-reading Gunter Grass' book The Tin Drum. Many of the characters in this novel are identified as Kashubian--especially the protagonist's Kashubian grandmother who in the book wore 4 skirts at all times, rotating them each week. Loved your folk costume!
I always loved Kashubian folk costume. I would definitely wear parts of it with modern clothes today, like this amazing shirt, it's to die for. I think I need a browse on their website. And those stays turned out beautifully!
Thank you so much for this video! Poland has a very special place in my heart. My husband and I visited in 2018 on a Catholic pilgrimage, In the footsteps of St. John Paul 2 and St. Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy! Your country is beautiful and so are the people. The food was pretty good too! I do hope I'll be able to visit again someday. God bless you and your family!
When I went to Germany where I was born I loved going to the old homes that belonged to family. Looking into churches were amazing. There was one church in the alps that had a little girl lying inside a glass coffin. Her skeleton was dressed in silver with jewels all around her head on top of a very pretty cap. The church changed her dress and all that she wore underneath every holiday or of some church function. That one stood out to me.
These jewel-clad skeletons are usually part of the same 'pretending to be medieval but actually being from the 19th century' trend. During the protestant reformation a lot of gold-encrusted saint relicts were destroyed. The catholic church replaced those with new skeletons with even more gold on them, to keep something on display for pilgrims. But nowadays the church is kinda embarrassed about such shameless bling.
Well , i have to say that this is a surprise. Thank you very much. No one has ever explained a Polish regional costume so well. Maybe you could contiue the thread, PLEASE. . Dzięki.
What I really like about this is how it demonstrates the ways in which very subtle symbols can be so effective at ensuring culture is transmitted through generations.
On my dad's side of the family, the branch my last name is from, I was told we were Polish--and we were! but the nationality listed when those ancestors came over was Prussia! This was the mid/late 1800's. They settled in Northeast Michigan, not far from Alpena. There were a lot of families there of Polish descent, but they were often from different parts of Poland, and my grandpa remembers him and his elementary classmates arguing about the "correct" Polish words for things, not realizing there were multiple dialects of Polish! Anyway, I love my Polish last name. Only four letters and easy to say, but pretty unique in the USA.
Bardzo miło poznać Pani Mamę i zobaczyć strony rodzinne 🌻☺️. Filmik zamieszczony 13 sierpnia, z pewnością nie przypadkiem (13 - 15 sierpnia - decydująca faza Bitwy Warszawskiej, która przesądziła o losach wojny polsko - bolszewickiej 1920r). Oglądam kanał, jestem pod wrażeniem Pani talentu, wyobraźni i ogromu wykonanej pracy. Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski, mieszkam blisko Krakowa ❤️🙋♀️💐🌹
Strój kaszubski jest jeden z piękniejszych strojów ludowych w Polsce. Osobiście bardzo lubię stroje łowickie i niezwykle bogate stroje ludowe żywieckie, pozdrawiam serdecznie
The exess of fabric is to mirror your wealth. Same with jewellery. Some norwegian folk dresses (bunads) are made of linen (shirt/blouse), and wool (skirt and bodice). But the neckerchief is imported damask silk. Not home spun... Love from Norway 🇳🇴
I was so excited to watch this! One of my favorite trips was a kayaking trip in this region, and I visited that historic museum. One of my fondest memories ever!
Thank you for this interesting video! The folk costume is really beautiful and looks great on you! I hope you have a wonderful time with your family during your visit.
This is wonderful. I don't know anywhere near enough about Polish folk costumes, more of a general idea, so it's really nice to get a closer look at a particular one I haven't encountered properly yet. 💙 (Also, while we Czechs did not have partitions, we were in a similar boat with much the same attitude towards folk costumes! That slightly awkward bit about the symbolism of red is familiar; that's what I remember we were taught in school about the red in our flag... which is veeeery similar to yours, and in fact used to be identical! Not sure what that was about 😅 but it does show we have the same roots in many respects... No sea or amber, though. 😁 )
Dziękuję za pokazywanie stroje regionalne Polski! Kiedyś próbowałam szukać troche o nich ale za dużo nie znalazłam, jakie zaskoczenie dzisiaj rano jak zauważyłam ten filmik!😂
It's lovely! I didn't know you were from this region :). I was in Kashubia the last week of July for the regional folk dance festival (we stayed in Brusy, but also visited the museum you shot this in in Wdzydze and we had a performance closeby). There were a lot of local dance groups, so we got to see quite a bit of the folk costume, and it's really lovely to see your version. Definitely love the stays with it! I took a couple of pictures of the embroidery motifs from the various museums we visited, they are all really lovely. Was the photo exhibition on in the Wdzydze museum when you were there? I really loved those images (I took a couple of pictures, but it was difficult due to the glass covers), and I thought it was interesting how all of them showed the more 'fashionable' 1890's styles and I couldn't really pick out the more regional styles in those. It made me wonder if the current regional costume is a bit of an 19th century invention mixing different traditional elements together.
This reminds me so much of our traditional bunad here in Norway. We have lots of different ones.. depending on where in the country you originate from. Many are handmade and so beautiful. ❤❤❤
The embroidery is so beautiful like a bouquet. I was wondering since folk dress was suppressed during the period of no having a country called Poland, did the women as an act of rebellion make them stating that they were bridal attire?
So funny. At first I thought it was the Norwegian bunad (folkdrakt). We do have different variations, depending on which part of the country you are from. But we have longer skirt,and white blouses. The head piece also do vary.
I was just reading about dirndls, the Bavarian and Austrian folk dress. There seem to be a lot of shared elements across a lot of Europe, but the regional dress is still quite distinct. They're all so beautiful!
Wow! I didn’t realized that you were polish, I always assumed you were English. Thanks for making a video about folks costumes, there always interesting.
Love this thank you! It’s really interesting as other countries’ historical clothing (or anyone else’s history at all) is not something we get to learn much about in the UK and it’s lovely to learn about your home country. Especially the colour significances, never heard of that before.
My great grandparents were from the Swabian region in Germany. My grandmother was the first in their family to be born in the US after they immigrated. I LOVE folk costumes from the region.
Thank you , this is such a nice video! It’s super interesting about the costumes, I live in the Basque Country their costumes are really plain only the men’s are more elaborate but they so much stick to their culture and traditions it’s wonderful to keep it going. By the way there’s a dance festival here each year with peoples all over the world we had Slovaque and Valassko they were absolute stars as far as their clothing. Fingers crossed for you I love your channel it’s amazing !
I'm glad to hear that about the costumes, I am Czech and love the costume from Valašsko (one side of my family originally comes from there). 😊 It's actually one of the simplest ones as Czech folk costumes go, from a remote hilly region, without layers of petticoats or big puffy sleeves or rich silk fabrics; but it makes up for it in how striking it is and how well it all goes together!
My favourite video yet, as i have loved folk costumes ever since I was a little German-British girl wearing dirndls and collecting costume dolls. Thanks for this insight into the costume (and the homes) of the region, the half-timbered houses were interesting to me, too, as they are differently constructed everywhere (I live in one in Switzerland).
I love the one with you by the sunflowers and the big green water pump. The colors are beautiful, but you look like Thumbelina for a second or too. I really hope you had a great trip and will try to get footage on your next trip. If you are already back, good, but if not, be careful the airlines are going crazy again.
Oh, c'est tellement intéressant ! J'ai vu un reportage sur la chaine TV franco allemande Arte, un beau reportage sur la culture encre très vivante de cette partie de la Pologne. J'aime beaucoup les broderies de couleurs, je suis petite fille de brodeuse et ma grand mère faisait principalement du blanc sur blanc pour sa clientèle mais elle aimait s'amuser à faire de belles pièces de couleurs, que j'ai gardées précieusement. Ma meilleure amie est Serbe et elle s'est brodé une chemise un peu comme la tienne mais avec des coloris plus vert sombre et rouges vif...
Your outfit turned out well. I think that the lacing is fine. Back in the day, each piece was for the comfort of the wearer with slight alterations. You will find all kinds of examples. The embroidery reminds me of Polish pottery. I do wish that more of national costume had more of an influence in today's fashion. Then clothes would have far less of a generic feel to them. I wear a cotton Hanbok made from solid black and sugar skulls printed fabric and use hot pink ribbons as a trim and closure. My birth family would be horrified but I don't have much to do with them anymore. I wear it as an ordinary outfit.
Beautiful embroidery. I'm curious how daily wear looks: would they cycle clothes from 'sunday' to 'daily' to 'dirty work', or would it be very different clothes?
As far as I'm aware there were daily clothes and sunday outfits. The sunday versions were more ornate and had delicate decorations. And as far as my traditional clothes here in switzerland go, your sunday outfit could feature a lot of expensive jewelry aswell as complicated laces and hats. For events aswell as sundays church you could wear the special things. When people wear our folk costumes today they tend to wear the sunday versions.
Watching this as a Kashubian girl: what a surprise! Do you mind sharing what city/village did you grow up in? Or if you would rather not for privacy reasons, then what voivodeship?
My great grabdmother was from Krakow, I hope I didn't spell that wrong. Andmy Father's family supposedly deserted to Poland from Napoleon's army on the way to Russia. At keast that's what my Grandfather told us.
European folk clothing is a bit of a weird beast, because some of it is genuinely the clothes worn by the common people, and some of it is well off city people making cottagecore outfits. Also, depending on the region, the folk costumes are either treated like a uniform with very strict rules and little room for self expression, or like regular clothing that has its own fashion trends and changes with time.
I'm also wondering if certain regions even have any set "folk" clothing at all? Bavaria has its outfits intentionally .. but for example the rest of Germany and France I can't think of too much from?
@@wednes3dayyes, there are SO many folk costumes across germany and france! you don’t see them bc unlike the generalized austrian/bavarian costume they remain highly regional and somewhat obscure.
@@lady_sir_knight3713 I'm guessing you would have to go into the villages? Idk, I've tried to look for something for a certain region and literally all that came up were maybe at most 2 old photographs per village (if that) on pretty much a single website
My mothers family was from Lithuania. Lithuanians who moved to the U.S. formed Lithuanian Clubs. My mother had a folk costume a bit like yours. I love the history behind the folk costume. I am glad your are keeping the history alive. Thank you.
@@lady_sir_knight3713yes, also unlike in Bavaria and Austria, they have mostly not been worn for quite some time except for dedicated folk festivals etc.
In Austria we have this sentence: "if every woman would wear a Dirndl (= our folk costume), there would be no ugliness in the world." After watching you in this amazing outfit, I think the correct sentence would be: "if every woman would wear the folk costume of her home country, there would be no ugliness in the world." You look stunningly beautiful! May we all keep our traditions alive and make the world more beautiful around us. Greetings from Austria 😍
That's a wise, fair sentence.
ojej jak miło wiedzieć że się tu u nas wychowałaś :)
Beautiful dress! Just an FYI. Kashubians were some of the first Polish settlers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They settled on what is called Jones Island and fished Lake Michigan. Jones Island has an interesting history. Sort of set apart from the main city of Milwaukee. Being from Milwaukee County and knowing these people were called "Kashubes"(although I never knew why), my curiosity of peaked. I don't know if you would be interested or not, but there is a lot on the Internet about it. Always enjoy your videos.
That's so cool you are from Poland. I'm half Polish, and have made a few Polish folk costumes in the past, although in a much smaller scale, for dolls! Your videos are a great help making historic costumes too.
Polish people have a reputation for being friendly. It is true. One of my best friend is of Polish descent
What a surprise 😲 I'm watching your films since a long time, and didn't know you've born here. All the best. Pozdrowienia 🙏🙋🍀
Świetny pomysł, żeby pokazać coś na ludowo. Szczególnie, że stròj kaszubski jest piękny i haft specyficzny.
You are so cute in this folk dress!! I love when you share more about your Polish heritage for us English speaking viewers!
Absolutely gorgeous ❤
I love that countries used to have such beautiful and functional garments in history.
Would love to see more of historical Polish dress, have seen some of Karolina Zebrowska's videos on more modern garments and it's so cool to see!
Thank you for this. We Americans get rather peeved when people think there is only one region that is "American" but we forget that Europe is also a multi-regional/ethnic/ country place with more unique cultures than our little minds can imagine. There is such a rich history in one outfit.
More folk costumes, please!
Omg, you are from Poland. How nice. I'm also from Poland. Greatings frim Zamość 😊
I love your Kashubian folk dress !
It resembles some of the norwegian "bunads".
(festive folk dresses wich are extremely popular).
Normally people wear bunads related to their origin.
My present bunad is from Hardanger, in the western fjords area, but as a toddler I had a Dirndl.
A gift from german family friends.
I have both norwegian, swedish, and icelandic ancestry, so can choose folk dresses from several
places.
I'd like to get an icelandic folk dress.
In black silk with gold emboidery, and a hennin head dress !
Love from Norway 🇳🇴
Just finished re-reading Gunter Grass' book The Tin Drum. Many of the characters in this novel are identified as Kashubian--especially the protagonist's Kashubian grandmother who in the book wore 4 skirts at all times, rotating them each week. Loved your folk costume!
OMG, I’m Polish, this is soo nice to find out, that you are also❤❤❤ And tomorow I’m going tomorrow Kaszuby for holidays❤
What you are wearing is absolutely stunning!
Ma Pani złote ręcei ogromny zasób kreatywności,gratuluję.Piękne kostiumy aż czasem żal,że już tylko kostiumy.🌹Serdecznie pozdrawiam z Kaszub
🙏🇨🇦
Very enjoyable. The homes and clothing very pretty. Thank you
I always loved Kashubian folk costume. I would definitely wear parts of it with modern clothes today, like this amazing shirt, it's to die for. I think I need a browse on their website. And those stays turned out beautifully!
Thank you so much for this video! Poland has a very special place in my heart. My husband and I visited in 2018 on a Catholic pilgrimage, In the footsteps of St. John Paul 2 and St. Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy! Your country is beautiful and so are the people. The food was pretty good too! I do hope I'll be able to visit again someday. God bless you and your family!
Thank you. I am an atheist though and think religion is responsible for a lot of bad things in my old country
Szczerze mówiąc, ostatnia rzecz jakiej się spodziewałam, ale bardzo miła niespodzianka❤
Beautiful and very touching video. The costume is beautiful and what a lovely place that is.
Such a lovely outfit! I love the blues. And the cottage behind you is so charming!
"three different blues, for the sky, for the lakes, and for something else that is blue" 😂😂
Your costume is beautiful!! Thanks so much for sharing your early memories of home. Your Mom is lovely,we see who you take after!! 😊💖
When I went to Germany where I was born I loved going to the old homes that belonged to family. Looking into churches were amazing. There was one church in the alps that had a little girl lying inside a glass coffin. Her skeleton was dressed in silver with jewels all around her head on top of a very pretty cap. The church changed her dress and all that she wore underneath every holiday or of some church function. That one stood out to me.
These jewel-clad skeletons are usually part of the same 'pretending to be medieval but actually being from the 19th century' trend.
During the protestant reformation a lot of gold-encrusted saint relicts were destroyed. The catholic church replaced those with new skeletons with even more gold on them, to keep something on display for pilgrims. But nowadays the church is kinda embarrassed about such shameless bling.
A beautiful area. Thank you for sharing some
of your homeland
Stupendous folk costume, appreciated Izabella! Poland is a much rich country for her landacapes, folklore, and her people.
I live in the Kashubian district! Great seeing this! It's beautiful!
My husband’s family is of Kashubian origin, coming to the US in 1866. Thank you so much for this video!
May I just compliment you on choosing Chopin for the music! The waltz is lovely, a dance for the soul, and from a Polish composer at that
Omg there's a folk costume from our Black Sea region, this made me remember it! Yours look magnificient, such a beautiful craftmanship
Well , i have to say that this is a surprise. Thank you very much. No one has ever explained a Polish regional costume so well. Maybe you could contiue the thread, PLEASE. . Dzięki.
What I really like about this is how it demonstrates the ways in which very subtle symbols can be so effective at ensuring culture is transmitted through generations.
On my dad's side of the family, the branch my last name is from, I was told we were Polish--and we were! but the nationality listed when those ancestors came over was Prussia! This was the mid/late 1800's.
They settled in Northeast Michigan, not far from Alpena. There were a lot of families there of Polish descent, but they were often from different parts of Poland, and my grandpa remembers him and his elementary classmates arguing about the "correct" Polish words for things, not realizing there were multiple dialects of Polish!
Anyway, I love my Polish last name. Only four letters and easy to say, but pretty unique in the USA.
In Germany, they are called Dirndle. The headwear is different, but the dirndle is similar to your dress with a bodice, blouse, and skirt.
Bunads and Folkdräkt in Sweden are also very similar.
Trachte in German.
I would wear those clothes every day of I could! Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for sharing a little of your history.
Bardzo miło poznać Pani Mamę i zobaczyć strony rodzinne 🌻☺️. Filmik zamieszczony 13 sierpnia, z pewnością nie przypadkiem (13 - 15 sierpnia - decydująca faza Bitwy Warszawskiej, która przesądziła o losach wojny polsko - bolszewickiej 1920r). Oglądam kanał, jestem pod wrażeniem Pani talentu, wyobraźni i ogromu wykonanej pracy. Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski, mieszkam blisko Krakowa ❤️🙋♀️💐🌹
Complete coincidence with the date.
That is the most beautiful color and embroidery ever.
I love European Folk Clothing because they still contain elements of historical fashion and survive the currents of changing times.
So beautiful! Your folk costume was absolutely stunning! I loved the color and the Handcraft!
I can't believe you are from Poland... you have perfect british accent! xD
I love folk costumes so much! You look beautiful!
Strój kaszubski jest jeden z piękniejszych strojów ludowych w Polsce. Osobiście bardzo lubię stroje łowickie i niezwykle bogate stroje ludowe żywieckie, pozdrawiam serdecznie
Ja sadze ze wszystkie stroje- ludowe swiata sa piękne. Bo to byli niezamożni ludzie którzy mimo to tez chcieli miec cos pięknego w ubiorze.:)
I love this costume. It looks so neat and pretty while not having the excess that some other folk costumes do.
The exess of fabric is to mirror your wealth.
Same with jewellery.
Some norwegian folk dresses (bunads) are made of linen (shirt/blouse), and wool (skirt and bodice).
But the neckerchief is imported damask silk.
Not home spun...
Love from Norway 🇳🇴
I was so excited to watch this! One of my favorite trips was a kayaking trip in this region, and I visited that historic museum. One of my fondest memories ever!
i love this so much!! so lovely to hear you talk about your heritage and childhood. the dress is absolutely lovely. as always thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for the fascinating look into your roots!
Thank you so much for this! I have loved your videos for years and this was so lovely to discover. Traditional clothes has so many beautiful details.
What a lovely outfit and atmosphere!
So much culture!
Such great effort went into this outfit!
Thank you for this interesting video! The folk costume is really beautiful and looks great on you! I hope you have a wonderful time with your family during your visit.
This is wonderful. I don't know anywhere near enough about Polish folk costumes, more of a general idea, so it's really nice to get a closer look at a particular one I haven't encountered properly yet. 💙
(Also, while we Czechs did not have partitions, we were in a similar boat with much the same attitude towards folk costumes! That slightly awkward bit about the symbolism of red is familiar; that's what I remember we were taught in school about the red in our flag... which is veeeery similar to yours, and in fact used to be identical! Not sure what that was about 😅 but it does show we have the same roots in many respects... No sea or amber, though. 😁 )
Dziękuję za pokazywanie stroje regionalne Polski! Kiedyś próbowałam szukać troche o nich ale za dużo nie znalazłam, jakie zaskoczenie dzisiaj rano jak zauważyłam ten filmik!😂
Beautiful!!!
That was really amazing Izabelle !! Absolutely love that dress, and nice to see your home country, looks very nice place to stay !!
Shame you lost some video. Thank you for what you did have, it was very interesting.
It's lovely! I didn't know you were from this region :). I was in Kashubia the last week of July for the regional folk dance festival (we stayed in Brusy, but also visited the museum you shot this in in Wdzydze and we had a performance closeby). There were a lot of local dance groups, so we got to see quite a bit of the folk costume, and it's really lovely to see your version. Definitely love the stays with it! I took a couple of pictures of the embroidery motifs from the various museums we visited, they are all really lovely. Was the photo exhibition on in the Wdzydze museum when you were there? I really loved those images (I took a couple of pictures, but it was difficult due to the glass covers), and I thought it was interesting how all of them showed the more 'fashionable' 1890's styles and I couldn't really pick out the more regional styles in those. It made me wonder if the current regional costume is a bit of an 19th century invention mixing different traditional elements together.
Very Pretty outfit, pretty choice of colors and sweet stitched designs; please Keep up the great work, MUCH appreciated
Thank you for giving us a window into this part of your life, I love your costume, it looks amazing on you too
Something completely different but wonderful to see...❤
This reminds me so much of our traditional bunad here in Norway. We have lots of different ones.. depending on where in the country you originate from. Many are handmade and so beautiful. ❤❤❤
No tego się nie spodziewałam 😲
Super film, Iza! Mam ok godzinę jazdy do Wddydz. Pięknie ci w tym stroju.
The embroidery is so beautiful like a bouquet. I was wondering since folk dress was suppressed during the period of no having a country called Poland, did the women as an act of rebellion make them stating that they were bridal attire?
So beautiful! Your folk costume was absolutely stunning! I loved the color, it was so rich and lovely the embroidery was also lovely❤
Thank you for sharing this! It's so interesting 😊
So funny. At first I thought it was the Norwegian bunad (folkdrakt). We do have different variations, depending on which part of the country you are from. But we have longer skirt,and white blouses. The head piece also do vary.
I was just reading about dirndls, the Bavarian and Austrian folk dress. There seem to be a lot of shared elements across a lot of Europe, but the regional dress is still quite distinct. They're all so beautiful!
Wow that is beautiful, and the video was very educational. So sorry that you lost much of the "film".
Wow! I didn’t realized that you were polish, I always assumed you were English. Thanks for making a video about folks costumes, there always interesting.
Love this thank you! It’s really interesting as other countries’ historical clothing (or anyone else’s history at all) is not something we get to learn much about in the UK and it’s lovely to learn about your home country. Especially the colour significances, never heard of that before.
My great grandparents were from the Swabian region in Germany. My grandmother was the first in their family to be born in the US after they immigrated. I LOVE folk costumes from the region.
You look gorgeous in this costume and the hat is very flattering
Thank you , this is such a nice video! It’s super interesting about the costumes, I live in the Basque Country their costumes are really plain only the men’s are more elaborate but they so much stick to their culture and traditions it’s wonderful to keep it going. By the way there’s a dance festival here each year with peoples all over the world we had Slovaque and Valassko they were absolute stars as far as their clothing. Fingers crossed for you I love your channel it’s amazing !
I'm glad to hear that about the costumes, I am Czech and love the costume from Valašsko (one side of my family originally comes from there). 😊 It's actually one of the simplest ones as Czech folk costumes go, from a remote hilly region, without layers of petticoats or big puffy sleeves or rich silk fabrics; but it makes up for it in how striking it is and how well it all goes together!
My favourite video yet, as i have loved folk costumes ever since I was a little German-British girl wearing dirndls and collecting costume dolls. Thanks for this insight into the costume (and the homes) of the region, the half-timbered houses were interesting to me, too, as they are differently constructed everywhere (I live in one in Switzerland).
I love the one with you by the sunflowers and the big green water pump. The colors are beautiful, but you look like Thumbelina for a second or too. I really hope you had a great trip and will try to get footage on your next trip. If you are already back, good, but if not, be careful the airlines are going crazy again.
Oh, c'est tellement intéressant !
J'ai vu un reportage sur la chaine TV franco allemande Arte, un beau reportage sur la culture encre très vivante de cette partie de la Pologne.
J'aime beaucoup les broderies de couleurs, je suis petite fille de brodeuse et ma grand mère faisait principalement du blanc sur blanc pour sa clientèle mais elle aimait s'amuser à faire de belles pièces de couleurs, que j'ai gardées précieusement.
Ma meilleure amie est Serbe et elle s'est brodé une chemise un peu comme la tienne mais avec des coloris plus vert sombre et rouges vif...
I love that costume. It looks nice on you. The embroidery is lovely. That's frustrating about the lost footage after the work you put into it.
I should have waited to do my comment - those stayes are much more beautiful without the apron !!
Another fantastic video. Love your costume❤
That's so cool! Just last week I was in Prusczc and Gdansk for vacation. Loved it there and hope I can visit again.
Your outfit turned out well. I think that the lacing is fine. Back in the day, each piece was for the comfort of the wearer with slight alterations. You will find all kinds of examples. The embroidery reminds me of Polish pottery.
I do wish that more of national costume had more of an influence in today's fashion. Then clothes would have far less of a generic feel to them. I wear a cotton Hanbok made from solid black and sugar skulls printed fabric and use hot pink ribbons as a trim and closure. My birth family would be horrified but I don't have much to do with them anymore. I wear it as an ordinary outfit.
That is a beautiful outfit.
Lovely.
Loved this! Would love more.
I would never thought you are from Poland :O Nice to find out, and thank you for telling us about the dress
Well that was delightful. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Beautiful embroidery.
I'm curious how daily wear looks: would they cycle clothes from 'sunday' to 'daily' to 'dirty work', or would it be very different clothes?
As far as I'm aware there were daily clothes and sunday outfits. The sunday versions were more ornate and had delicate decorations. And as far as my traditional clothes here in switzerland go, your sunday outfit could feature a lot of expensive jewelry aswell as complicated laces and hats. For events aswell as sundays church you could wear the special things.
When people wear our folk costumes today they tend to wear the sunday versions.
I love the stripes on the skirt
This outfit looks so gorgeous! Also, skirt go spinny! :D
Very pretty. I do love embroidery on traditional dresses and the symbolism behind it. Any chance, we might get the male version as well?
Och jak miło:) Greetings from Poland I subscribe and have been watching for some time, and here is such a nice accent for me.
Watching this as a Kashubian girl: what a surprise! Do you mind sharing what city/village did you grow up in? Or if you would rather not for privacy reasons, then what voivodeship?
beautiful--thank you!!
You are so talented, its beautiful.
My great grabdmother was from Krakow, I hope I didn't spell that wrong. Andmy Father's family supposedly deserted to Poland from Napoleon's army on the way to Russia. At keast that's what my Grandfather told us.
Thank you for promoting our Polish culture
You did the costume justice
wonderful!!!!
Love the Chopin❤️🎶 i forget what region of Poland he was from originally though...
He was from Masovia :) Born close to Warsaw.
As was I- hence the choice
Gorgeous!