A powerpoint presentation with traditional Cretan costumes

1. ΚΡΗΤΗ-CRETE

2. Traditional Cretan costumes
The traditional Cretan dress is rarely used today
in the Municipality of Zaros,and all over Crete,
except from rare occasions, such as in formal
events and festivals, where visitors might see
women and men wearing the wonderful weaver
and embroiderer costume that was established
in about the end of the 16th century.

4. Dancing!!!!!

5. Female costume
The female costume can be categorized into
two types. The female costume of Sfakia,
which is also the most common in the island,
consists of a multi-folded embroiderer dress, an
embroiderer apron, a short topcoat with sleeves
(meitani), or a loose-fitting open sleeveless
jacket (salamarka) over the silk shirt. The
embroiderer kerchief and the various jewelry
and coins that adorned the chest of the woman
supplemented the costume.

7. The second type of female costume is the one
of Anogeia, which appeared in the mid-17th
century and is very similar to the one of Sfakia.
The only basic difference is the addition of
baggy trousers (salvari) underneath the skirt.

9. Male costume
The male costume was common all around the
island was either formal or informal. The
informal or the everyday dress (vraka) consists
of a black blue loom cloth (also common in
other places of the Aegean), a shirt, a front-
buttoning waistcoat (meitanogeleko) and a long
sash wrapped around the waist. The costume
was supplemented by high leather boots
(stivania), and sariki, the traditional headdress
of Cretan men.

12. ● The formal dress was called salvaria and was of
good quality blue felt. It consisted of baggy
trousers (vraka) a front-buttoning waistcoat
(meintanoyeleko) adorned with beautiful
embroidery, an embroiderer silk shirt, a long
red sash and white color stivania.

13. Stivania

14. Nikos Xilouris (he was a great Cretan singer !!!!!)
has covered his head with a sariki.

15. The dress was supplemented by
the essential sariki, and a chain
worn on the neck and connected
to the knife in their sash. In
some cases, they also wore a
felted cape with a hood in the
winter.

16. Nowadays, the traditional Cretan costume has been
simplified and sometimes it is still worn by old men
in mountain villages. This simplified costume
usually consists of the black or khaki baggy trousers
(vraka), a black shirt, black stivania and the popular
sariki.

17. A traditional dancing team with Cretan
costumes

18. sources
● http://explore-crete.gr/en/land-and-people/welcomeallvis
● Images from internet pages
By Efi Filippaki
Geniko Lykeio Kisamou- Chania