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Welsh traditional Fashion

What is called national costume is based on the peasant costume of the eighteenth centuries. In common with other European countries, the dresses and accessories which are preserved on festival days and to impress the foreign visitors have little claim to originality apart from the colour and applied patterns devised by the girls and women of the locality

Lady Llanover, the wife of an ironmaster in Gwent, was very influential in encouraging the wearing of "national dress", both in her own home and at eisteddfodau. She considered it important to encourage the use of the Welsh language and the wearing of an identifiable Welsh costume. She succeeded in her aim mainly because people felt that their national identity was under threat and the wearing of a national costume was one way to declare that identity.

By the nineteenth century, the characteristic features of traditional Welsh costume were as follows: a striped flannel petticoat/skirt (usually in red and black wool), was worn under a flannel open-fronted betgwn or bedgown, with apron, flannel shawl and kerchief, and a small square flannel shawl, pinned under the chin, or, in many cases, a paisley scarf or shoulder shawl, topped with a tall black hat (or in parts of Wales, a red cloak).
 

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