Nemțean-traditional folk costume

Over time, Neamt traditional folk costume, through shape, color and ornament was one of the most important modes of expression of popular culture in this region.

Traditional Garments fits into the general characteristics of Moldovan folk, but adds various and original elements specific to Neamt county. The folk costume differentiate by destination – work or feast – or after the area who came: mountaineers wore clothing in sober colors and less ornamented, instead the people from the plain have an explosion of colors. For the execution of an outfit given, an exclusively female activity, the materials from which it was made were produced in house, and every woman can express their creative side.

The port includes traditional femalebroboada (head shawl), shirt skirts,catrința (skirt), belt andbârneața(),bondița,suman (overcoat) andopinci(sandals). Broboada, a woven fabric of cotton, withvrâsteoralesăturiwas worn by married women. Girls wore bareheaded, with their hair braided into stalks and adorned with flowers. Specific our area iscasânca, a shawl with fringe on the edges, black or floral. In some villages are wearingbarizul, flowery scarf made ​​of thin cloth. Veil of linen, cotton or hemp, hemmed edges and adorned with various patterns, is worn at festivals and other events in the life of the village. Crinkled shirt at the neck, has ornaments arranged on chest and sleeves in one, two or more colors, with geometric, floral, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic patterns. Lap, only ornamented at the bottom has the same model like the shirt. Over lap followscatrința. Woven of wool yarn, or silk or gold lace and silver, if it were for the feast/ celeration. Catrința were not wear all over Neamt County, its place being taken, in some villages from the Trifești commune, ofpeșteman, meaningfotă made fromcotton, or a wrinkled skirt at Târpești and Ion Creangă. Over the middle, women wrap withbârneațamade fromcanava, a cotton fabric in assorted colors with those of thecatrința.