Post Your Ethnic Costume!

trappedolphin

Recently my church had an event where we invite delegates from all over the world for a conference, in line with our heavy involvement in local and overseas missions. As part of the event, people are encouraged to dress up in their ethnic costumes, which looked really cool overall. That got me thinking, and I realised that I don't know much about various cultures' ethnic costumes beyond the Chinese, Indian, Malay, and Thai. And maybe a couple others peppered here and there. So rather than do a boring old Google trail, I decided it might be fun to make a thread for this.

So! The purpose of this thread is to share your ethnic costume! It can be a picture of yourself or a Google picture or just a description of it and on what occasions you wear it, if any, or just anything related, really. Hopefully we'll get a nice variety of cultures and pretty clothes!

Only one note: This thread is for the purposes of fun and education through sharing only. Don't insult anyone. Please and thank you!

TheCrystalShip

I really thought that this was gonna be a satirical offshoot of the Racism thread.

Cyclone_Baroness

^ Same here. Glad to see it's something different lol.

FelRes

So we just like post pics of what kinda outfits our ethnic background(s) traditionally wore?

trappedolphin

@FelRes:

So we just like post pics of what kinda outfits our ethnic background(s) traditionally wore?

Sure, or whatever you might wear on cultural occasions nowadays.

Nolus

More of a military uniform, but it's my favourite out of Hungary's traditional costumes.

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With moustache of course. Hussars need moustache.

Sir Derp

Don't think I need to say where I come from.

Monkey D

It's not an ethnic costume, it's a cliché costume >_>

Chrissie

Oooooh~ I like this! There were several types of traditional clothes all over the country… Each area had it's own actually

This was worn by higher class girls that lived around the bigger 'towns'

This by the lower classes gals

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And there were more designs and colors but these are the most well-known ones for women :3

FelRes

I can't really find many decent pics, but here's some stuff worn by the people of the tribe I'm a descendant of. (I'm mixed race, so there's several different things I could post.

^They disguised themselves when hunting for food

Another neat outfit and period piece thing.

Only time wearing that sorta stuff came up for me was when I did a school thingy and then a funeral a few years ago. Can't seem to find any decent pics of the men's clothing.

MiyamotoMusashi

This is pretty much what they were wearing

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A bit of background information and a traditional dance (among many of course) which we still dance at every wedding or occasion

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trappedolphin

Cool stuff These are all really interesting!

@Chrissie:

http://www.foustanela.gr/plakidas/images/site/foresies/kypros/kypriaki/kypriaki_03.jpg

And there were more designs and colors but these are the most well-known ones for women :3

I think I would actually consider wearing this out.

Chrissie

I reaaaally like the black cardigans with the gold detail on them xD I'd love to own one!

MiyamotoMusashi

@Chrissie:

I reaaaally like the black cardigans with the gold detail on them xD I'd love to own one!

Seeing that it is quite similar to what i have posted for the female garb, it is not that hard to get really, though i don´t know where you live of course

Jabra

@MiyamotoMusashi:

This is pretty much what they were wearing

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Okay, this one looks actually damn cool.

Rookiee

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Lots of different types according to region. Can see them being worn in the more rural areas still I believe.

Chrissie

@MiyamotoMusashi:

Seeing that it is quite similar to what i have posted for the female garb, it is not that hard to get really, though i don´t know where you live of course

Cyprus. I am a Greek Cypriot

MiyamotoMusashi

@Chrissie:

Cyprus. I am a Greek Cypriot

Then it is not surprising that it is so similar, i live in Germany but my "roots" are in Turkey

Monkey King

@MiyamotoMusashi:

Then it is not surprising that it is so similar, i live in Germany but my "roots" are in Turkey

Zeybek is a specific kind of sub-culture in Turkey? From a little bit of looking up of it it sounded like they were more inland, maybe lots of stuff left over from the Byzantine days.

MiyamotoMusashi

@Monkey:

Zeybek is a specific kind of sub-culture in Turkey? From a little bit of looking up of it it sounded like they were more inland, maybe lots of stuff left over from the Byzantine days.

Yeah, it is definitely a specific sub-culture but the garbs are definitely influenced, like you said, by the Byzantine days but also by the Ottomans themselves who also reign over the territories that make up today´s Greece and Cyprus.

Monkey King

@MiyamotoMusashi:

Yeah, it is definitely a specific sub-culture but the garbs are definitely influenced, like you said, by the Byzantine days but also by the Ottomans themselves who also reign over the territories that make up today´s Greece and Cyprus.

There is a lot of general clothing similarties over the old Byzantine/Ottoman transcontinental zone. Albanians, Slavic Macedonians and Mainland Greeks have some clothing commonalties too I've seen.

Not really sure the Ottomans would influence Greek Cypriot clothing that much though, or the other groups (except maybe Albanians). They had a very caste based Empire, Greeks (who stayed Greek anyway) wouldn't really have been dressing as the elite (Ottoman Turks) were.
As for groups like the Zeybek, more continental Turks like that probably also wouldn't have dressed like the elites either. The rich urban political/military Turks didn't even see themselves as the same group as rural peasant/nomad Turks until like the late 1800's! They were "Ottomans" instead of Turks. Kind of strange.
The Zeybek clothing is probably half leftover Byzantine Greek stuff and half stuff brought in by the Turkish invasions from pre-Ottoman times. I'm guessing.
The clothing also seemed similar to what I've seen from Azeri's, and those guys don't have any Greek influence (if Turks are made up largely of former Anatolian Greeks, than Azeris are made up largely of former northwestern Persians, both mixed in with the Seljuq Turks of course).

MiyamotoMusashi

I guess you are right. To tell you the truth, i overlooked the caste system back then and pretty much assumed that Ottomans influenced the majority of their territories which would pretty much explain the similarities between so many different cultures but they can of course be influenced by a pre-Ottoman era

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1PceXperience

@zachri:

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LOLOL You really hate these Chav folks, huh? Honestly I've never heard of them until I've read the post. But as Mr. Monkey said, Chavs are the equivalent to what we call Juggalos.

Mastello

@Rookiee:

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Lots of different types according to region. Can see them being worn in the more rural areas still I believe.

Oh nice, I didn't know we had some Estonian folks here.

[hide]These aren't really Finnish costumes but rather, Sami. I have some Sami ancestors though so I think these are appropriate.

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DarkFalcon

I have bit of a problem, since there is great variety of patterns available, depending on region (and I don't know, which would be most representative). Although they mostly do utilize same elements of garment.

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those aren't all the patterns available

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nope, still not all the patterns (some are doubling)

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from Kujawian region, where I was born

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From region of Łowicz. I think those are my favourite.

trappedolphin

@Mastello:

Oh nice, I didn't know we had some Estonian folks here.

[hide]These aren't really Finnish costumes but rather, Sami. I have some Sami ancestors though so I think these are appropriate.

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I like the one for females

@DarkFalcon:

I have bit of a problem, since there is great variety of patterns available, depending on region (and I don't know, which would be most representative). Although they mostly do utilize same elements of garment.

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those aren't all the patterns available

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nope, still not all the patterns (some are doubling)

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from Kujawian region, where I was born

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From region of Łowicz. I think those are my favourite.

these are really cool!

Do you guys still wear these costumes at all?

Smudger

What is my ethnic costume? Seriously what does England or Australia have.

Light Bro

@Smudger:

What is my ethnic costume? Seriously what does England or Australia have.

Autumncomet

That's a really nice hat, though. I'd wear it.

This is ao dai, the traditional Vietnamese costume. Men usually wear a darker colored variant with thicker fabrics. Both sexes wear pants.

Stereo Mike

@Light:

http://www.occupyforanimals.org/uploads/7/7/3/5/7735203/1161500_orig.jpg

Australian even harder.

Plz no one post a picture of Steve Irwin.

SEACOW

@Autumncomet:

That's a really nice hat, though. I'd wear it.

This is ao dai, the traditional Vietnamese costume. Men usually wear a darker colored variant with thicker fabrics. Both sexes wear pants.
http://i.imgur.com/aBUZNce.jpg

I prefer this:
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DarkFalcon

@trappedolphin:

these are really cool!

Do you guys still wear these costumes at all?

apart from folk music groups, people in villages or small town wear traditional costumes for special occasions.

Chocula

@Stereo:

Australian even harder.

Plz no one post a picture of Steve Irwin.

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Smudger

@Stereo:

Australian even harder.

Plz no one post a picture of Steve Irwin.

how about one of the locals unconscious outside Centre link with an empty bottle off petrol and half a rag up their nostril? And probably no clothes.

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@OnePunch:

I prefer this:
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this is beautiful.

If only that was something in my country

Stereo Mike

@Smudger:

how about one of the locals unconscious outside Centre link with an empty bottle off petrol and half a rag up their nostril? And probably no clothes.

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this is beautiful.

If only that was something in my country

Centrelink in some capital city?

You have no idea I lived most my life in Broome mate. lel

Pochipochi

The traditional ethnic attire and song of the Canuk and Albertan Peoples of the north

Monkey King

i want to see what neapolitan italian mountain villagers wore but am having trouble finding this lol

probably pants

C_uggs

You can´t be more brazilian than this:
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Nolus

I need to post some real Hungarian ethnic costumes:

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Yep, men wore skirts as well. At least, it's a kind of a skirt. Sort of. Not the same as for the women.

Monkey King

@captain:

You can´t be more brazilian than this:
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If I recall what you look like, we agreed that I am more Brazilian looking lol.
What's your ethnic background?

1PceXperience

I typed in American Ethnic customes in google, and the results just gave me costumes from a multitude of other ethnic backgrounds.

BartArt

Here are some of Iceland's national costumes:

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These are from different time periods and worn for different occasions. If anyone wants to know more about any of them I'll be happy to tell you.

Monkey King

@BartArt:

Here are some of Iceland's national costumes:

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These are from different time periods and worn for different occasions. If anyone wants to know more about any of them I'll be happy to tell you.

Which one's oldest.

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@1PceXperience:

I typed in American Ethnic customes in google, and the results just gave me costumes from a multitude of other ethnic backgrounds.

Well we have like… six or seven areas of distinct native cultures.
Of which the coolest dressed are really fucking easily the Pacific Northwest Indians.

BartArt

@Monkey:

Which one's oldest.

This one:

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Smudger

@Stereo:

Centrelink in some capital city?

You have no idea I lived most my life in Broome mate. lel

armadale mate lol.

Isnt broome up north? You must be bored shitless.

trappedolphin

@BartArt:

This one:

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That hat is awesome. And I love the dress on the right of the picture!

Davy Jones

Here's a picture of my good relatives from Russia!

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Light Bro

Here's some traditional Finnish tanhudancing fresh from wikipedia.

Femme

Trinidad & Tobago's aborignals [Caribs and Arawaks] pretty much don't exist anymore in the country, so my country's main occupants are the descendants of slaves and merchants that were brought to the island centuries ago.
So, it's a mix of Indian, african, and chinese. I've got blood relatives that are Chinese, weirdly enough.

My family hails from the Indian people who came to the island, so I guess my Ethnic costumes would be traditional Indian wear, as my grandmother and great-grandmother wore.

Soo the only other thing I can think of is Trindad's unique festival called Carnival - basically a week long party that happens every year.
Scantily clad women dress up in a few handfuls of material called "costumes" to dance to soca music pumped on the streets. A lot of the time the dancing is quite vulgar and I'm not into it at all -_-

Here's a [NSFW] google search, I don't wanna post pics.