Victoria Karelias Collection

The collection comprises a large number of complete traditional outfits, as worn by women and men, from all regions of Greece, a considerable number of gold-embroidered overcoats, excellent pieces of work of the terzides, as well as pieces of jewellery.

The costumes are classified into three categories; costumes with Segouni (the overcoat worn by the rural and livestock-breeding population of Greek mainland), costumes with Kavadi (a long outer garment) and costumes with the frock dress.

Each village had its own style of dress which denotes where they came from. There were a lot of wedding dresses as these were more commonly preserved. It was sad to see the transition to the generic while wedding dresses in the 20th century.

There was some amazing of jewellery on display and the gift shop had some fabulous items inspired by the collection. I purchased a pair of ear rings. Of course..Baca lagi