Vraka inv.no. 2300
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Source:
National Historical Museum
Code:
100
Translator:
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Description:
The vraka is made of thick cotton material dyed black in the traditional manner. It is the kind of vraka worn by monks, which has a different cut from the rest and is longer.
The secular dress worn by the village priests, who also engaged in farm work, is similar to that of the villagers. It consists of a vraka, yileko, zibouni and sash, the distinctive item being the head cover, the kalymafchi, which was worn in the countryside with a headkerchief called the kaspastin.
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, 208.