Chemise inv.no. 2295
Gender information of the object:
Type:
Place:
Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
107
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The chemise is made of striped white cotton fabric. The back and front are made from a single piece of material, with no stitching at the shoulders. There is a vertical opening at the breast and around the neck, and the sleeves are made of delicate white material and sewn vertically to the body.
The chemise is part of the every day costume worn in Karpasia.
According to G.S. Frangoudis, this consisted of ‘‘a full-length chemise, pantaloons that flare at the bottom, a kerchief on the head, and pumps on the bare feet. This is everday dress worn by women of Karpasia and other parts’’. Φραγκούδης, Γ.Σ., Ο ριζοσπάστης, Εν Αθήναι, 1901, σελ. 37
Bibliography:
Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, E. 1999: ‘Cypriot Costume at the End of the Nineteenth Century’, In Cypriot Costumes in the National Historical Museum. The World of Cyprus at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. Athens, 217.