The traditional costume at the region Elymbos of Karpathos
Author: Marigoula Kritsioti
Edition: Tropos zois
Content
The women’ traditional costume of Elymbos would demand an analytical approach of its cultural context, since it fits in harmonically, reflecting and interpreting it with the clothing rules. But the area of an announcement hardly allows it. For that reason I am not going to attempt it, and as well I am not going to refer to the whole of the garments, nor to a detailed description of the ones I choose, but only to their various social meanings and functions, those that are in effect until the first postwar years and often till today…
