European Clothing
Illustrated Handbook of Western European Costume: Thirteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Century (Dover Fashion and Costumes)
Iris Brooke (Paperback) Dover Publications 2003-07-07
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Halloween history
Pumpkin carving, scary movies and candy. These were the staples of my Monday night as my fiancé and I celebrated Halloween, the way we do every year. Everyone has their own way to celebrate, but the tradition itself stems from a variety of cultural traditions.
As with any tradition there are several beliefs in how the custom began, but Halloween is mostly believed to stem from the Celtic festival of Samhain. Located in what is now the United Kingdom, as well as Western Europe and Turkey, the Celts held a celebration near the end of October to recognize the end of summer. They believed that the veil between this world and the next was thinnest at this time of year and to ward off these spirits they built huge, symbolically regenerative bonfires and invoked the help of the gods through animal and perhaps even human sacrifice.
It is also believed that Halloween has been heavily influenced by the Christian holy days of All Saints' Day, also known as Hallowmas or All Souls Day. Falling on Nov. 1 and 2, it was a time for honouring the Saints and praying for the recently departed who had yet to reach heaven. By the end of the 12th century they had become days of holy obligation across Europe and involved such traditions as ringing bells for the souls in purgatory.
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I’ve always loved the term, and multiracialism as well. In Malaysia, we are openly a multi-racial society; you see food stalls with Chinese lettering and Indian mamak shops. Wherever you go, there are clear signs that any given space caters to the needs of specific races, and it’s only hyper-consumerist spaces that cater to as many people as possible, that are, ahem, “race-less”. (Neocolonialism, you see, strips a country of its cultures, and replaces it with a singular culture of buying and selling and marathon window-shopping....
SeventeenthCentury Headwear History Costume
Well-groomed head was important for both men and women during the seventeenth century. At the beginning of the century fashionable men wore their natural hair quite long with lovelocks, or extra long strands of hair, dangling over their left shoulder. In addition, their faces were tufted with mustaches and beards. Kept neat with wax, men's mustaches and beards ranged from full and thick to pencil-thin lines. But when the hair of the French king Louis XIV (1638-1715) began to fall out in the late 1600s, the king and, subsequently, more and more men began to wear thick, flowing wigs. As the volume of hair on their heads increased, men wore smaller and smaller beards and mustaches, until most were clean-shaven by the end of the century.
At the beginning of the century men wore fancy versions of the copotain hats of the previous century, with high crowns and wide brims, often stuck with large plumes, or feathers. However, the preferred hat by the end of the century was a simple, low-crowned tricorne hat. Rather than elaborate decoration, the angle at which the tricorne sat on a man's head became a fashionable art.
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Western European Costume Century News
Halloween historyDrayton Valley Western Review - Dec 31, 1969
Located in what is now the United Kingdom, as well as Western Europe and Turkey, the Celts held a celebration near the end of October to recognize the end of summer. They believed that the veil between this world and the next was thinnest at this time
StandardNet - Dec 31, 1969
Weber State University instructor Susan Young said western European culture teaches people to keep the dead out. People hope to fool the deceased with costumes, so they are not dragged along to the netherworld. In Latin America, however, this is a time
Baltic Times - Dec 31, 1969
Jin Hong: It's very common to see students, like high school students, coming back home from school after midnight; it's something unthinkable in Western Europe. [They] want to go to one of those prominent colleges to ensure their success after
Focus News - Dec 31, 1969
Lina Gergova: The collection presents more than 670 folk songs- mostly from Macedonia, but also from other regions of the country – from South-western Bulgaria. There are also some kid's games, legends, customs, and descriptions of national costumes.