Moldavian highlanders

[Aspirin]

Some pictures from interwar period taken in Neamț county, Moldova region, North-Eastern Romania, showing life of peasants in Carpathian mountains.

Source: https://romaniadacia.wordpress.com/2...r-photography/

[Aspirin]

[ixulescu]

Ghegs

Spoiler!

Dunai proved it

[WeirdLookingFellow]

If anyone wants an idea of how these looked like in color, these are pictures that I took from the (abysmally small) ethnographic museum in Iasi:

[Not a Cop]

If anyone wants an idea of how these looked like in color, these are pictures that I took from the (abysmally small) ethnographic museum in Iasi:

Is it me or theese dresses have a lot of slavic elemnents?

[Ford]

Costumes remind me a lot of Serb clothing from NE Bosnia

Spoiler!

[ixulescu]

Is it me or theese dresses have a lot of slavic elemnents?

Balkan, not Slavic. Dresses like this can only be found in Ukraine outside the Balkans. Russians, Belorussians have different folk costumes.

[WeirdLookingFellow]

Is it me or theese dresses have a lot of slavic elemnents?

There's a continuity of traditional clothing style starting from Bosnia/Bulgaria up north to Poland/Ukraine/Belarus. Moldavian woman clothes and Ukrainian ones are extremely similar, but they do diverge.

Russian ones seem to be the most unique of the bunch.

[Aspirin]

Costumes remind me a lot of Serb clothing from NE Bosnia

Spoiler!

Yes, exist some similarities.

[Aspirin]

Is it me or theese dresses have a lot of slavic elemnents?

Exist of course, but between Eastern Slavs, only Carpathian Rusyns have very similar dresses, especially similar to Moldavians.