Folk costumes

[Comte Arnau]

The Upper Aragonese (Central Iberian Pyrenees)

Ansotanos, from the Valley of Ansó







Chesos, from the Valley of Echo







Belsetanas, from the Valley of Bielsa




Navaters (Raft drivers) from the Sobrarbe



Chistabins, from the Valley of Chistau





Benasquesos, from the Valley of Benás

[Onychodus]

Russian

[Onychodus]

[The Lawspeaker]

Two "Belgian" samples (Flanders and Wallonia.. as good as extinct) and Drenthe in the Northern Netherlands (likewise).

[Peerkons]

[Graham]

Something differen't from all the tartan. Very Tough women in these old photos.

Old Shetland women






Newhaven Fishwifes. Edinburgh

[Damião de Góis]

Traditional costume used by students at Portuguese universities on special ocasions (I guess this can go as a "folk costume"):

Female:


Male:

I never bought this. I would if i was studying in Coimbra, but not in Lisbon. There is no tradition there.

[Pallantides]

[Frederick]

Some from the German confederation

Bavaria:
Yeeeeeeeeeeha!


Blackwood forrest:



Baden:


Hesse:


Silesia:


Thuringia:




Spree Forrest:


Mecklenburg-Pomerania
Yoohooo and a buddle of rum



Schleswig Holstein
Can you smell the fish? Aye... wind blows from the seaside...

[Mordid]