Palócföld is in the Northern part of Hungary. I used to live there for 6 years. The people are warm-hearted, kind and have a very cute accent.
Within that area many traditional costume
groups were developed in the past, according to women’ s hairstyle, color and decoration of
their headweares, number and lenght of skirts, the length of their bodice’s
embroidery, the forms of their apron and in case of men, according to their hat forms, how their
shirts were embroidered, the lenght of their fringed-bottom pants, etc.
The different villages had different styles
(Bujáki, Hollókői, Khazars, Őrhalmi, Rimóc, Nagylóc etc.), and the different
costumes reflected the wearer's age, financial status, and the occasion.
Typical was the new young wives’ head-wear.
In the 1850’ies the men wore mostly white
flannel clothing. The young men had to buy a traditional coat before they could
think of asking a girl to marry them. The fully decorated coat was worn at
their wedding and from then on to festive occasions during their entire life.
At festive times the young girls wore 12 to 15
underskirts. As they got older, the number of skirts were reduced.
The headwares were decorated with lace,
ribbon, embroidery, beads. The older the women got, the less decorations
appeared on the headwares.
Here are some more examples of the dresses:
Other parts of Hungary had different types of traditional folk-art clothing, another famous place is the Kalocsa city area with their unique embroideries:
Or Matyó folk-art:
To honor tradition, I made something that is wearable today and these necklaces are very popular amongst modern women, too:
And a stylized Matyó-embroidery tulip motive:
