Re: [h-cost] Researching Folk Costumes

2008-03-28 Thread Hanna Zickermann
Hi Aylwen, I just did a very very superficial check on Geman sites. In short, I found out that the Vendish were a Slavic tribe/people and closely related to the Sorbs. There is still a minority in eastern Germany. Vendish and Sorbish appear to have the same roots, but during the GDR the

[h-cost] Researching Folk Costumes

2008-03-25 Thread Aylwen Garden
I am currently researching costumes/clothing that would have been worn by the Vendish people. Does anyone here know what they might have worn as a special outfit that might now have been considered a folk costume, considering they have now been assimilated into German society. Thanks, Aylwen