Folk Costume
Cieszyn women’s folk costume
In the nineteenth, and even at the beginning of the twentieth century, women in the central part of Cieszyn Silesia, around Cieszyn, Skoczów, Bielsko and Frysztat proudly wore a remarkably elegant and stylish costume, called wałaski costume.
Cieszyn Men’s Folk Costume
Great joy abounded in a farmer’s cottage when his wife gave birth to a son. The baby boy’s first clothes were powijoki; wide strips of linen used to swaddle him. The baby would first be dressed in festive clothes at his baptism. A delicate white bonnet, called a dziecięco czopeczka, and decorated with lace and coloured ribbons, would adorn his head.
