Begovácz Rózsa – Burján István – Vándor Andrea: Folk Art in Baranya County (Pécs, 2008)
Costumes
Conquering Turks had a great impact on clothing of the gentlefolk as well as of the peasants in the 16th and the 17 t h centuries. Simpler, straight cutting, greater efforts for colouring, even spreading of new materials represented the last significant Oriental impact leaving traces in Hungarian folk wear. It is also marked by more or less general words: aba (posztó - broadcloth), dolmány-dolman, kalpag - calpac, kaftán - kaftan, papucs-slippers, csizmaboots, etc. - though some of them were transmitted to us by the Southern Slavs. In the following centuries German impact is increasing as a result of the political situation (kalap - hat, karton - calico, pántlika ribbon, lajbi- peasant waistcoat, pruszlik- bodice, etc.), which also signifies the growing spread of the products from German manufactures. The contact with Slavic people manifests primarily on the level of peasants, and results in a number of interactions. Hungarian language is enriched by the following new words: gatya - long linen drawers, kabát - coat, sapka cap, karima - brim, pelenka - nappy, etc. Hungarian costumes certainly did not only incorporate external impacts, their inner development differing from region to region is also significant. Hungarian wear had a significant effect on people living together with them, too. This is especially true in Baranya county. We could not undertake to present the costumes of all ethnographical and ethnical groups of course. We preferred the ones in use in the recent past or even today. Reformed Hungarian costumes from the Szigetvidék region, part of the exhibition 52
