Traditional Welsh Costume

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 569.

As you know clothes aren't the least important thing in human life. It mirrors history of the country and distinguishes a definite people. The traditional Welsh clothes aren't the exception.

Look at the cards and say which one is the flag of Wales?

Name the rest & provide the information on the history of the flag of Wales.

Read an excerpt from the conversation with C. Stevens (and some info on your own) and try to draw analogies between the clothes and costumes of the countries you have already studied.

Ms. C. Stevens of the Museum of Welsh Life, (to be found at St. Fagans, near Cardiff) contributes the following: "The popular image of Welsh "national" dress, of a woman in a red cloak and tall black hat, is one which has developed as a result of various influences which arose in the nineteenth century. The costume regarded as national dress is based on clothing worn by Welsh countrywomen during the early nineteenth century, namely a striped flannel petticoat, worn under a flannel open-fronted bedgown, with an apron, shawl and kerchief or cap. The hats generally worn were the same as hats worn by men at the period. The tall "chimney" hat did not appear until the late 1840's and seems to be based on an amalgamation of men's top hats and a form of high hat worn during the 1790 - 1820 period in country areas. “