Folk Music, Motives, Clothes and Dances

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Folk Music, Motives, Clothes and Dances
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We have chosen this topic, because we dance in a
folk dance group in our village so we are
interested in it.
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Hungary has a lot of national costumes from
different parts of the country

• National or czardas costume
• Folk costume of Kalocsa
• Folk costume of Sárköz
• Folk costume of Mezoség
• Folk costume of Eastern Transylvania
• Folk costume of Kalotaszeg

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National or czardas costume

• This is the first costume that uses the national
  colours red, white and green. Women wear a red
  vest, boots, a crest, a white skirt and a green
  apron. Men use a brown vest, a white shirt, black
  trousers and boots.

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Folk costume of Kalocsa

• Young girls pin up their hair and put rose or
  pale blue ribbon on it. Womens hair is decorated
  with embroidered caps. We wear a silver collar of
  pearls.

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• We wear five skirts altogether. The first one is
  a white mini skirt. The second one is a not
  starched, white skirt. It is followed by two
  starched white skirts. The last one is flowered.
  We also wear an embroidered apron, a waist and a
  waistcoat. We dance in special slippers.

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• Boys wear a hat, a white shirt with some typical
  folk flower motifs, a black vest, black trousers
  and black boots.

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Folk costume of Mezoség

• Women wear long red or black cotton skirts with
  small flowers. This costume is very simple. Women
  wore waist-deep, red or black, puckered muslin
  skirt with red folwers and red or black boots.
  Girls and women wore 2-3-4 underskirts and a
  black head scarf with red flowers. Girls let down
  their hair and decorated it with ribbon, women
  wore their in buns. Men wore blue waiscoat with
  yellow brass stud, a white shirt, white or grey
  home-made stockings. They used black boots.

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Folk costume of Sárköz

• This is the most decorated costume of all. The
  womans costume is the richest in mateiral and
  form. Women wear white blouses. The vests and
  skirts are very different.

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Folk costume of Eastern Transylvania

• This costume is lighter than the others. Women
  wear a red vest, a black skirt with green and red
  flowers and a colourful headscarf.

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Folk costume of Kalotaszeg

• This is the fanciest folk costume. Girls wear a
  white, bead drip. This wear is varied very much.
  They use bare skirts.

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Folk Dances of Kalocsa

• Kalocsa has got 3 main kinds of folk dances.
• Czardas this is the easiest dance. The music to
  it is not too fast.
• Fresh czardas this is different from the simple
  czardas. It is a fast dance.
• Ciframars this is the typical dance in this
  region. It is really fast and fresh.

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Czardas
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Fresh czardas
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Ciframarsh
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These are the Hungarian folk costumes. I hope you
have found our comment interesting.