Hello all, Today I will do an overview of the costumes of the Saami people. Previously they were called Lapps, but this is not wh...

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Hello all, this is my 200th article, and I thought i should do something rather different. I will do an overview of the folk costumes of Europe. I will follow nation-states, as inappropriate as that may be, but i will also cover nations without states. Some very small and obscure ethnic groups will be omitted for lack of available material. I will also not be covering the north Caucuses, as there is simply too much material there. Where there is a recognized or unofficial 'National Costume' I will show that. This will necessarily not include much in the way of explanation. Iceland Upphultur Peysufot Faldbuningar Faroe Islands Ireland Scotland England Wales Brittany Bigoudin Kemper [Quimper] Plougastel France Berry Normandie [Normandy] Provence Euskadi [the Basque Country] Andorra [also Rousillon and Catalonia] Spain Andalucia La Mancha Galicia Portugal Minho Madeira Algarve Monaco [also Nice] Italy Lombardy Lazio Calabria Arbëreshë [Italo Albanians] Vatican City There is no women's costume for the Vatican Sardinia Florinas Orgosolo Quartu Sant'Elena Malta Switzerland Appenzell Valais/Wallis Graubunden/Grisons Liechtenstein Germany Miesbach, Bavaria Gutach, Schwartzwald Scheesel, Lower Saxony Luxembourg Belgium The Netherlands Volendam Beveland Staphorst Friesland [Frisia] West East North Denmark Fanø Hedebo Amager Norway There have been several attempts to design a national costume, but most of them have not received much acceptance. The most successful was a simplified form of the Hardanger costume, but this is currently little used, as most people wear their local bunad. Hardanger Setesdal Gudbrandsdal Sweden National Costume Värend Rättvik Sabme [Lappland] Jokkmokk Kautokeino Skolt Finland Häme, western Finland Kaukola, Finnish Karelia Tuuteri, on the Finnish Isthmus Estonia Järva-Jaani, North Estonia Muhu Island Setu, South Estonia Livonia Latvia Latgale Vidzeme Nica Lithuania Aukštaitija Žemaitija Vilnius Kaszëbskô [Kashubia] Poland Łowicz, Mazowsze Krakow, Małopolska Podhale One of many Górale or Highlander costumes Sorbia [Lusatia] Chosebus [Cottbus], Lower Lusatia Slepo [Schleife], Upper Lusatia Catholic costume, Upper Lusatia Bohemia Plzeň [Pilsen] Blata Nové Paky, Northeast Bohemia Moravia Hanak Valašsko Vlčnov, Slovacko Slovakia Myjava Detva Šariš Hungary Palóc Kalocsa Matyó Austria Montafon, Vorarlberg Tyrol Upper Austria Slovenia Gorenjsko Dolenjska Bela Krajina Croatia Posavina Zagrebačko Prigorje Dubrovnik/Konavle Bosnia Moslem town costume East Hercegovina Orthodox Serbian Costume Travnik, Catholic Croatian Costume Serbia Šumadija Vojvodina Gniljane Crna Gora [Montenegro] Macedonia Skopska Blatija Galichnik Radovish Gorani Albania North Albania and Kosovo [Gheg] Sulovë, Central Albania Fieri, South Albania [Tosk] Greece Amalia Costume, Athens Kriti [Crete] Karagouna, Thessaly Cyprus Bulgaria Sofia [Shope] Rhodope Severnjashko [North] Vlach in Serbia in Greece in Albania Romania Wallachia Transylvania Moldavia Moldova Gagauz Crimean Tatar Ukraine Central Ukraine Hutsul Volyn' Carpatho-Rusyn, Lemko Komancha Venhryny [Čirč region] Jakubany Belarus Svetlahorski region, Western Polissia Malarytski region, Eastern Polissia Russia Peasants from northern Russia Kaluga Province Voronezh Province Karelia [Russian held part] Tver' Province Karelians Veps Nenets The Nentsi [formerly known as the Samoyed], live along the arctic coast from the White Sea to well past the Urals, and thus into Asia. Komi Permliak Udmurtia Northern Udmurt Southern Udmurt Mari-El Ural Mari Mordovia Erzya Moksha, Contemporary Costume Men Chuvashia Anatri Chuvash bride and her father Anat Enchi bride, groom and married woman Virial Chuvash Matchmaker Tatarstan [Kazan'] Bashkortostan [Bashkir] Kalmuk [Kalmyk] Thank you for reading, I hope that you have found this to be interesting and informative. Roman Kozak

So SCA stands for the Society for Creative Anachronism and participants do a lot of research in making their costumes, much like other living history renenactors. I thought that it would be …