Folk Costumes

Palóc people still cherish their traditions and use their richly ornamented folk clothes.

The full costume probably first took shape in the 1870s and 1880s, after which it gradually evolved. The style of garments that you can see nowadays dates back approximately to the 1930s.

Men wore tight black trousers, embroidered linen shirts and felt waistcoats adorned with embroidery. Around  their waists they wore black satin embroidered belts onto which they attached colourful ribbons. They also wore black circular felt hats and boots.

Women's clothes with many short skirts were more characteristic, and much more decorative. On weekdays a woman only wore two pleated linen underskirts reaching just below her knees, and her bonnet, adorning her head, was also without fringes. However, on Sundays and holidays she had seven or eight petticoats under a decorated silk or cashmere outer skirt. Young girls wore as many as fifteen or twenty pleated petticoats. Women wore richly embroidered, small black silk aprons or pleated aprons over their skirts. The costume was completed with a cambric or lace bodice and a shawl adorned with colourful tassels. In olden times girls wore their hair in plaits decorated with small ribbons. Married women wore bonnets with beaded small shawls under them. They wore lacquered boots on their feet, and five or six strings of beads around their necks.

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