Nice card from France depicting the coiffes de Bretagne, Brittany's headdresses. The card was sent by Damien.
Brittany is a historical region in the north-west of France, with a
population of just over 4 million people. This small region is famous
for its variety of traditional costume, officially there are 66 of
them. Essential part of the women's costume is a headgear called coiffe.
There are more varieties of coiffe than of costume, because for a young
woman of marriageable age, for a married lady or for a widow coiffe
must be different. They vary in size and complexity, from small pieces
of lace worn over a bun, to elaborate, towering creations with flowing
ribbons, but there is something common between them all: they are of
white colour and mostly are made of lace (sometimes embroidered calico
is used instead).
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Each village and region has singularities in the coiffe, which tell the
others about where the woman is from. And the names of the headdresses
come from the names of those regions.
The use of such headdress disappeared quite recently, and even in the
50s, their use was still common. Nowadays no one wears coiffe in
everyday life anymore (except for a few older women in some villages),
but during festivals the Breton women still, like a hundred years ago,
cover their heads with lace, ribbons, cones and caps.- in: https://local-moda.blogspot.com
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