Estonia FDC on "Estonia Folk Costumes - Harju County"

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Estonia Folk Costumes - Harju County

Date of Issue : 14 April 2011

Clothes of more or less the same type as elsewhere in North Estonia were worn in Harju County

0.58 Euro : Jõelähtme - A girl and a woman from the first half or the middle of the 19th century.
The girl’s headgear is a so-called eared wreath and a wide red band decorates her green-striped skirt. The girl’s sleeve embroidery is rather simple, but the sleeves of the married woman who sports an embroidered apron are decorated with lavish wide embroidery. She wears a pot hat lined with silk. Gradually spreading, such hats crowded out the earlier traditional women’s headgear.

0.35 Euro : Rapla
The Rapla woman wears a hat. The so-called eye brooch with red stones was a popular festive decoration. The Rapla woman wears white embroidered sleeves, a skirt with horizontal stripes of a more modern type and a purchased apron with large flowers embroidered on it. The man with the bagpipe wears a grey jacket and light pants with blue stripes. The traditional and quite widespread man’s suit in North Estonia was navy blue.