Traditional Hungarian Costumes

Hungarians (and also their ethnic groups living beyond the current frontiers in the Carpathian-Basin) are well known for their remarkably ornamented and

richly coloured traditional costumes, varying by ethnographic regions, age and gender of the wearer.

A traditional attire dinoted easily who the person, wearing it, was and it also told about their age, the seasonal occassion or festvity it was used for. Neither

could one’s social background or property status remain disguised when wearing these costumes.

Women’s national folk costume from Somogy

County.

National folk costume from Szabolcs

County.

Women’s national folk costume from the village of Bogács

Women’s national folk costume from Hollókő, the only

Hungarian UNESCO World Heritage

located in the Palóc ethnographic

region.

Young girls and married women from the Palóc region were the ones wearing the most sumptuous traditional attires accross the whole Carpathian-Basin, such as bonnets, waistcoats and skirts. For the young girls it was

traditional to wear white coloured necklaces of pearls whereas married women wore them in bule or green. For elderly people, however, it was unbecoming to wear pearls in any form at all.

Traditional costumes from the village of Kazár

Traditional costumes from the village of Rimóc

Traditional costumes from

the ethnographic region of Matyó

The traditional costume of the Matyós were extraordinary precious.To get hold of a nice piece of this art young girls and lads spent years scrapeing and saving every penny .

Traditional costumes from the ethnographic region of

Jászság

Women’s national folk costume from the region of

Dél-Alföld (Southern Hungary).

National folk costumes from

Sárköz.

Women’s national folk costume from

Kalocsa.

Kalocsa with its costumes of folkloristic ornaments excels from others in the region.A hundred years ago women in Kalocsa wore a so called single bue-dye dress.

Later on, however, their costumes became one of the most sumptuous traditional attires accross the Carpathian-Basin.

A snapshot of the traditional Rábaköz ethnographic region (northwestern Hungary).

Women’s national folk costume and an

authentic Hungarian couple from the

region of Mezőség (Transilvania,

Romania).

Women in Rábaköz tied colourful silk apron in front of their long skirts, men wore shirts

and drawers embrodied with tiny floral patterns.

National folk costume from Csíkszereda (Transilvania, Romania).

Traditional couple wearing a

sumptuous attire from Torockó (Transilvania,

Romania).

The traditional costume of Torockó is attrackting the eyes with its vivid colours of basic red and blue.

Traditional Hungarian

embroidered peasant cloak and

ornamented women’s wear from

the ethnographic Kalotaszeg region

(Transilvania,Romania).

The most beautifull traditional costume in Erdély (Transylvania, Romania) is that of the ethnographic region Kalotaszeg.