#pubilla

[spacespheal]

Catalan Miku

[useless-catalanfacts]

Did you see the Mike Hatsune trend on twitter? So many Catalan Mikus!!!

I hadn't seen it! They're so cool!!

(And by the way, Miku is already Catalan 😉 the software used for her voice —Vocaloid— was created by the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona)

Say in the comments which one is your favourite!

Miku dancing sardanes wearing traditional clothes (pubilla outfit). By @/itsnailasart

Miku in a calçotada! By @/miden808

Miku castellera and pubilla Miku. By @/SpaceSpheal (also on Tumblr @spacespheal!)

Modern girl Miku who is a monitora de cau. By @/enosst

Miku castellera!! By @/TaySokka

Miku dancing sardanes. By @/NoddlsChikk

Miku with a Tió de Nadal. By @/gatomonogordo

Miku with the dragon, Mic and a calçot. By @/mewvy_y.

Miku dressed as castanyera! By @/lau_artwork

I've reached the photo limit for a Tumblr post but there's more! Say which one is your favourite in the tags. I can't choose just one but I'd say the 1st one, SpaceSpheal's, and the castanyera.

[miku-earth]

Catalan Miku 💛❤️ by itsnailasart

with thanks to @useless-catalanfacts for the description:

Miku dancing sardanes wearing traditional clothes (pubilla outfit).

[itskirtash]

some catalan hatsune miku art (perroflauta, calçotada familiar and pubilla amb el ruc) ❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛

[londonlingo]

Terms for different familial relations

Here’s a list of words in various languages that refer to different members of your family that don’t exist/we don’t use in English:

La pubilla (Catalan) = the eldest daughter

O/A caçula (Portuguese) = the youngest child

O primogenito/ a primogenita (Portuguese) = the eldest child

Avunculus (Latin) = the maternal uncle

Matertera (Latin) = the maternal aunt

Patruus (Latin) = the paternal uncle

Amita (Latin) = the paternal aunt

Also various cultures call people older than yourself as uncle/aunt as a sign of respect/kindness. For example, kids in Brazil will often call adults tio/tia even though they are not related.

I believe Russian does this but as I don’t speak Russian please feel free to leave a comment talking about this. The same is the case for different desi cultures. Please shed some light in the comments.

[amateurchefstuff]

Fira de Sant Martí – Puig-reig 2024

Dies 9, 10 i 11 de novembre del 2024 Puig-reig (Berguedà) La Festa de Sant Martí: és la festa patronal de Puig-reig, se celebra sempre el diumenge més proper al dia del Sant  l’11 de novembre. En aquesta festa el poble segueix la tradició d’escollir pubilla i dames d’honor, amb la participació en la votació de totes les entitats locals. MÉS INFORMACIÓ A:   https://puig-reig.cat/ I A:…

[useless-catalanfacts]

Absolutely agreed with the comment about bullfighting and everything that @korereapers said. There has been a strong push for decades to pretend there is such a thing as a unified Spanish culture, and Andalusian culture has been chosen as the one that must be it. This was very strong during Franco's dictatorship, where Andalusian culture was forced on the rest of us in order to "Spanishify" us and to sell us to tourists, but even after the end of the dictatorship the Spanish nationalists still defend this, and tourists have believed it and come to Catalonia looking for flamenco and bullfighting. Some tourist trap fake flamenco places have popped up so tourists can go see it in Barcelona, but thankfully bullfighting is illegal in Catalonia for being animal torture.

About the doll, the version wearing Catalan clothes is not very well done. I can see where they're coming from, lots of the traditional outfits are based on everyday clothes so they include an apron (often with flower patterns, I myself have one of these for when I dance ball de gitanes) over a skirt (the colour makes sense), and she's wearing a shawl (which we wear, but so do all of Iberia, lots of countries in Latin America and the Philippines) but it's a mix of two kinds of shawls so in the end it looks like neither.

It's not completely bad, I can see what they're trying to do, but they did it quite badly, probably on purpose to make it look more Spanish. The head ornament is the one that stands out the most. It's a peineta comb, they must have copied from Andalusia, Castilla, Madrid and other parts of Spain to give it a "Spanish look" (which it wouldn't have because Catalan culture is distinct and doesn't use peinetas). If we removed the hair ornaments, it would be close enough to pass as a Catalan doll, but not enough to stand out from other European dolls.

I think it's a mix of different clothes from different occasions, if they had stuck to one it would have been recognisable. To me, it looks like a mix of the ball de gitanes clothes from some places (only some, other towns' ball de gitanes looks completely different) and the typical pubilla outfit, mixed and made blander to look more everyday and less festivity.

This is the ball de gitanes clothes that are similar in style:

(Ball de gitanes from Tàrrega).

(Ball de gitanes from Esparreguera)

Though this style is maybe minoritary in balls de gitanes, the festa major dances in general change a lot from town to town, so I don't think this outfit is recognisable for people who live in towns where this dance dresses differently.

The shawl seems like a mix of a handkerchief and the Manila shawl. It's very common for many dances to wear a handkerchief tied around their back, like this:

(Ball de bastons from Sitges)

(Ball de bastons from Sant Pere de Ribes)

(Ball de bastons from Tarragona)

This handkerchief is usually in bright colours and has patterns. In some places, the handkerchief design is part of the outfit so the whole dance wears the same pattern and colour, but in many other places it's free and each person wears a different one. But these are normal handkerchiefs, they don't have fringes like the ones that Barbie is wearing.

The shawls with fringes are the Manila shawl (mantó de Manila). This is part of many traditional outfits in all the Iberian peninsula, many parts of Latin America, and the Philippines. But this shawl would NOT be made of a simple cloth and have a pattern like that. Manila shawls are made of silk and are embroidered in a very recognisable style. The one that Barbie wears is a normal handkerchief (works for the ones I mentioned before), but the fringes I'm sure were inspired by the Manila shawls.

(Four examples of Manila shawls from an exhibition in Vilanova i la Geltrú)

(Comparses and candy war in Vilanova i la Geltrú during the Carnival holidays)

The rest seems loosely based on the stereotypical Catalan clothes which is the pubilla outfit, but they skipped the most characteristic parts which are the fishnet gloves and hairpiece, and other recognisable elements like the chocker. The things they kept right: white stockings under a long skirt in a realistic colour. Summing up, they only used the blandest and less recognisable part, probably in an effort to make it less distinctively Catalan and more "could pass from any place in Spain (or even many places in Europe)".

The pubilles (and the male counterpart: hereus) represent the traditional heirs of a household, and nowadays they are elected to act as representatives of the town or city in cultural events. Their clothes have been considered Catalonia's national clothing for over a century now. Their clothes have some noticeable changes from area to area and of course they changed throughout history, but in the early 1900s they got fixed into this stereotypical ones that are still used nowadays and which have become the most iconic "stereotypically Catalan" look. Here area some photos as examples of what this outfit actually looks like in real life:

The hair net is very iconic, but they sometimes also wear a lace veil.

It's worth mentioning that the pubilla outfit changes quite a lot in the Terres de l'Ebre area (South). Here's what they wear in Tortosa:

That being said, there are many many many other traditional Catalan outfits to choose from as well. The pubilla is very representative of the Central and Northern (Comarques Gironines and High Pyrenees) areas of Catalonia, but in lots of the South (Penedès and Camp de Tarragona) it's less significant than other traditional outfits like the ones worn for festa major dances. But even in those cases, the pubilla outfit is the iconic stereotypical Catalan outfit that is instantly recognisable around the country, so it's usually the one pictured in postcards or everything that wants to portray folklore in one image.

If you are interested in seeing more Catalan traditional clothes, you can check this previous post:

I went a bit off the rails, but I hope it helps answer the question!

Lastly, a question for other Catalans or other people familiar with Catalan culture, even if just the stereotypical parts: would you have recognised that doll as a Barbie with Catalan clothes?

"Spanish" Barbies

I was curious to know how many "Spanish Barbies" were out there.

They're mostly Andalusian Barbies:

(the 3rd one is sooo beautiful!)

There was also a presumend Catalan Barbie (called Spanish Barbie nevertheless). Maybe @useless-catalanfacts can comment if there's something real in the traditional costume or is an inspired-by version.

And the biggest offender:

Wha... what's this?

Bullfighting is not cool, or glamorous. It's inhumane and animal torture and one of the biggest reactionary strongholds in Spain.

So big no-no. And yes, even if it's just a dress on a doll. No matter how exotic the costume may be, bullfighting is barbaric.

Thoughts on the dolls?

[aliguesdecatalunya]

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[petxina]

got all these at a market for handmade stuff yesterday. very happy :-)

[mamagraf]

[useless-catalanfacts]

Slow motion video of a traditional dance performed at the end of the Saint Anne festa major (traditional Catalan holiday that each town holds on the day of the town's patron saint) in Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra.

With the slow motion, you can see the clothes well. They're wearing the traditional outfit of formal occasions in Old Catalonia (the north-eastern half of Catalonia) and Andorra, in the rest of Catalonia (New Catalonia) usually reserved for the pubilla and hereu (elected cultural representatives).

Video by Facu Santana. Dancers: Esbart Santa Anna.

[asancho99]

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Felicitats a la pubilla major /Reina de Festes 2017 de la Sénia. Se que encara estàs dormint o que encara no teu creus, però que sàpigues que teu mereixes tot i més. Ets maravillosa i al igual que tu vas estar al meu costat quan vaig ser dama ho jo ho estire en tu ara que es el teu moment. Disfrutau, ara l'espera serà eterna però en les festes de la Ràpita entre mig pasara més ràpid. Enhorabona guapi💞😘👑 @deliaprades PD: gràcies per la colaboració de @juliamoza03 al video 😂#DeliaPubillaDeLaSenia2017 #Pubilla #Damesdel17 #LaSenia #Love #Dames #quintos #quintos17 #k99 #LaSeniaMola #damesdel16 (en Sant Carlos De La Ràpita, Cataluna, Spain)

[dioptria]

Nuvolades damunt la Costa Pubilla - www.fotopsia.org - Instagram

[elpaisdellop]

Costa Pubilla o Cim del Pla de Pujals (2055 metros)

Nikon d7100

[oscarxofa]

Bon dia amb la #pubilla Presidenta Agrupació #Sardanista la #Grandalla #Encamp #Andorra (at Encamp) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnOHxVaA0en/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1szzva2mlo6gs

[danielgarciaperis]

Torna la #pubilla al @casalgelidenc com a espectacle de #FestaMajor #FMGelida17 #Gelida #Penedès (at UNIÓ DEL CASAL GELIDENC)