the tricks to know to understand the costumes of the parade

The parade costumes of Cornouaille Festival are true works of art. Symbols of the Breton heritage they are full of details, which give clues as to their origin and those who wear them. In the same town, the costumes were not the same in the towns or in the countryside.

Precious Fabrics

Most costumes that will be worn by dancers and ringers are inspired costumes from the nineteenth to twentieth century rather rich costumes, traditionally worn for weddings or the great pardons . We recognize their quality in velvet at the bottom of the sleeves and at the bottom of the skirt, "We are going to have big velvet heights, explains Romuald Hervé, head of the costume commission at Kendalc'h large ribbons, and embroidery ".

The colors

First element to observe, the colors. It is easy to recognize, for example, the costume of the Bigouden, with its yellow or orange embroidery on the badplates and the large headdresses.

The costume of Quimper is also rather flamboyant, often pearly, with gold, silver, glbad beads . Romuald Hervé explains: "Often the colors are due to the vagaries of the trade.A color will come on a market and seduce the locals, for example the glazik is the blue cloth.It gave the name to the costume but also to the locals (note: we speak of "Pays Glazik" for the country of Quimper). As for the Scottish finally, we should call this print "tartan "But everyone says Scottish!"

A bigouden headdress can hide another

The shape of the headdresses defines the geographical origin of the person. The headdress is also the element that has been preserved for the longest time in the daily clothing of women. It was regularly seen in the streets until the 1970s.

The Bigouden headdress at a height, is the most famous, but the specialist explains that we should not stop at the cliché: "The bigoudene is very high is the last period of the bigoudène, but there are also bigoudènes very low. is the ultimate evolution of bigouden, and began to gain height from 1900 ".

For its part, glazik "borledenn" cap is more trapezoidal, large or small depending on the period while the headdress of Lorient is a kind of lace airplane. An oval resting on the top of the head.

A work of goldsmith on the pbades

One must also know how to appreciate the work of pbades of the Aven . They are traditionally very wrinkled, with according to the time more or less embroidered and wide pbades, but they require an incredible work of starching, mulching and ironing. Elsewhere we do not find this technique there. For example in the country of Auray there are rectangular pbades that look more like the pbades worn by sailors, but very worked, very embroidered.

Embroidery

Embroidery can also provide information on the origin of the dancers. On some dresses, the embroidery makes it possible to know if the young woman who wears the outfit is married or single!