Mehedinți costume

A typical head kerchief, a blouse, vîlnic, red waistband and girdles. The girdles and waistband seem secondary, usually being made from a small quantity of wool, but they played an important part in the traditional costume as a whole. The women’s girdles introduced an element of prohibition and at the same time marked the connection between the vîlnic woven from coloured wool and the white blouse.