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BELLES OF BUKOVINA IN THEIR BRIGHTEST AND BEST |
WEDDING BELLS IN PEASANT LAND |
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| Many and varied are the costumes in vogue among the peasants of Bukovina, where the country maidens deck themselves in brilliant homespun, hand-worked garments, never averse to striking a note of originality when possible, as is exemplified by the headdress of the girl on the left, from which long skeins of bright red wool depend, falling about neck and shoulders like luxuriant tresses | Apart from the nuptial finery which savours little modernism, the faithfulness of the Rumanian peasantry to old usages is manifested in many wedding customs, to which bride and groom are obliged to submit according to prescribed formula |