Folk costume
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Folk costume, also known as folk attire, traditional attire, traditional dress, or regalia is the clothing of an ethnic group, nation or region, and expresses cultural, religious or national identity.
Traditional gandoura, also called djebba fergani, from Algeria
Egyptian musicians wearing jellabiya
Moroccan women wearing takshita in 1939
Traditional Tunisian clothing, including safasir
Tracht
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Tracht refers to traditional garments in German-speaking countries and regions. Although the word is most often associated with Bavarian, Austrian, South Tyrolean and Trentino garments, including lede
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…North Ossetia-Alania, and Adygea, the chokha, papakha, and ushanka are traditional. Every state in Germany has its own version of regional costume (tracht). Bavaria's lederhosen and dirndl are widely recognized. So has Austria, Liechtenstein and German-speaking Switzerland, with the best-known from Tyrol…
Austrian men in their Tracht
Tracht of Gutach in the Black Forest, around 1900. The red colour of the pompons indicates that the woman is unmarried.
Woman wearing an Upper Silesian Tracht, Prudnik
Frisian Tracht from the North Sea isle of Föhr