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Smooth moves indeed! Totally mesmerising 😍

"Smooth mover Saturday" But of course not forgetting..........

Hello everyone, everywhere, I decided on a "smooth mover Saturday" this week. The sight of Goran is just about the only thing brightening things for me at the moment, although I appreciate that's the same for loads of people nowadays. I find some gifs particularly mesmerising!

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Saturday has made it at last. Now if we could just tell everyone in my life that means a day off that would be great.

Happy Slay me in a Suit Saturday

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This man kills me🥰😍❤

Happy Sunday!

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Flynn Friday!

As I've just lost both my temp jobs during lockdown, I need cheering up with some Goran pic spam. So add ALL THE PICS plz! 🤣

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Goran Thursday! 

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Saturday. The day a suit was made for. 😊

Happy Slay me in a Suit Saturday!

[ancsury92]

What’s up guys?

Here’s a Flynn for you. Just because :)

I’ve been a bit offline in the past days, been in a mini-vacation! And next week, I’m going to Croatia! Can’t wait!

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Hi! I would like to ask you if you have any resources (articles etc.) on two apron clothing in the Balkans and in the east slavic region. I remember you mentioned once a bulgarian article about it and i also know about one albanian article and that's all. I would be very very thankful if you could help.

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Hi! This is a topic that has interested me greatly as well. I believe this is the book in Bulgarian I’ve sent before. I don’t know about the one in Albanian, so I would be very grateful if you shared it! Unfortunately, as much as I have searched, I haven’t been able to find much that has focused on this specifically. I’ve mentioned Moszinski a couple of times already, here are the relevant pages from his book on material culture:

Lubor Niederle also talks about this briefly - starting on p. 170 (link in Russian, book is called Life and Culture of the Ancient Slavs)

There is a chance you already know these, but I will share them nevertheless, because the examples are obscure, found outside of the “usual/expected” regions, and it took me personally a lot of active searching to find them, meanwhile you can find the more well-known ones more easily.

1. It seems two aprons were present in at least some “Dinaric” women’s costumes in the past. Here are the pictures I’ve managed to collect:

(from Zmijanje, Bosnia and Herzegovina; on the upper two pics; source)

(Zmijanje again, same source)

(from Sasina, Bosnia and Herzegovina; source)

These ones I had read about. I’ve also read that there were some in Prnjavor and Debeljača (Bosnia), but I haven’t managed to find examples. However, I came across this:

which is from the Kozare museum in Prijedor. Haven’t managed to find any info or other pics, unfortunately. In some old illustrations of Dinaric costume illustrations there seems to be something resembling a skirt? Won’t spam with them, but you can take a look into the pinterest linked in my ‘about’ if you want.

2. There are some also from Bulgarians in places where you wouldn’t expect (basically south of the Balkan mountain). Interestingly, they are mostly found in Muslims or in regions close to Muslims. (which has led me to thoughts about when, possibly, the Christian population stopped wearing them - supposing they did, and then they went on to other types of dress) Apart from them, I’ve read that elderly women from Kotel used to put a back apron under their sukman (sleevless dress) to keep them warm. This is from Tserovo, Blagoevgrad

And a wrap-around apron from Dolno Osenovo, Blagoevgrad (some researchers think they are related); both pics from vol. 4 “Bulgarian folk costumes” by Maria Veleva

This is from the village Potochnitsa, near Kardzhali

I don’t know why one has the pants over and the other - the chemise. The first image is from here, the second is from the regional museum of Kardzhali (link to museum site). Both list the clothing as Pomak/Bulgarian, Wikipedia used to say the village is Turkish, so idk. Researchers also relate to this one the wrap-around apron from Rusalsko village, where the situation is similar:

(same sources)

In a nearby area women have this thing called гахтан (gahtan) which looks like a stringy back apron:

(Petkovo, Smolyan; source)

(Komotini/Gyumurdzhina, Greece)

Similar to it is something which I’ve only seen in the album by Anita Komitska “Bulgarian folk costumes”; it’s from Florina (Lerin) in Greece, it’s a bit difficult to see:

Moving north, I’ve seen claims that there are two-apron costumes from around Polog in North Macedonia, but still haven’t seen any.

In Golloborde/Golo Brdo, Albania, the Muslim Bulgarians also wear two aprons:

Ostren i Vogël/Malo Ostreni (source)

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Similarly, Gorans from Kosovo:

It’s curious that a lot of these “extant back aprons” are woolly/stringy, they remind one of the Romanian ones from Banat (called opreg), and the ones that Serbian Vlachs wear (who historically come from around Banat too, I believe).

Another example of such aprons is that of Serbians from Banovina/Banija, Croatia (source)

3. Unusual Croatian ones

from Kosovo - vilalges Janjevo and Letnica. The right one is not unusual in terms of length for Kosovo, often there are very short ones there, but the pleat is interesting.

Krashovani

These two random examples:

Nova Gradiska area (source)

Slavonski Kobaš (KUD Matija Gubec, source) I think they used to wear them during menstruation. But the way that Slavonian chemises’ backsides are embroidered in general makes me think that there used to be aprons there - similar to Baranja and Bosanska Posavina.

With Romanians it’s easy-peasy, almost all of their types are two-aproned. This site has a nice overview in English, although the images have been edited a bit strangely, and there’s a long bibliography. Here’s a FB page with books/albums. The Albanian case is a bit more difficult for me to research because of the language barrier.

If you want to read about this in Russian, you can search for “поясная одежда” (poyasnaya odezhda), or “понева” (poneva), which is the most common name of the back skirt/apron. There is also this page about medieval Rus peasants’ dress, and they discuss archaeological finds and historical developments (in Russian though).

In Ukrainian the same garment would be “плахта” (plakhta), but it’s a bit more specific, it’s diffrent from, say, the actual apron that Hutsuls have (zapaska). (Еxamples of plakhtas, and a short article in English) Plakhtas are also known in Southern Belarus. I don’t know what specific information to give about East Slavs as I think more is available in general. I suppose one thing that was a bit more difficult to find was, I read somewhere that, in Zhytomir, older women used to wear zapaskas in place of litnyks (closed skirts), again pointing to older customs of wearing two aprons. I think there was something similar in Chernihiv (where they wear plakhtas), but I might be wrong about that as I lost the source.

Sorry for the dump, but thank you for your question and if you want to say/ask anything else - go ahead!

EDIT: Re-reading your question, you said “the east slavic region”, which makes me think - some Baltic and Finno-Ugric peoples also have two-apron dresses, but writing this post has already taken a lot of time, lol, so let me know if you want me to share what I’ve come across in a separate post.

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Having a day off from adulting (I wish). Enjoy some fun.

Happy Slay me in a Suit Saturday

[ancsury92]

Oh,boi😍

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Happy Slay me in a Suit Saturday.

Hope it treats you well.

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Finally light at the end of the tunnel. It’s Saturday people so

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Hope it’s a good one

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Saturday. Suit. That’s it.

Happy Slay me in a Suit Saturday

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And breathe. It’s the weekend. We made it!

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Hope it’s a good one.

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Saturday. Oh Saturday. How much we appreciate the weekend!

Happy Slay me in a Suit Saturday 😊

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Well, just because and might I add