National/folk costumes

This thread is turning into a really amazing series of posts... I'm impressed by the sheer variance from area to area!  The Vlčnov costumes are pretty incredible!  I'm not sure which is more impressive - the women's ensemble or the horses'!  The parade images are great, too...  such an interesting sort of rite.

Indeed, some of the areas exhibit an unbelievable amount of variety. The Slovácko region in Southern Moravia is a prime example of that. The Vlčnov costume is just on in a series of amazing and colourful folk dresses I'll be trying to cover in this thread. 

To give you all an idea of how small and diverse an area we are talking, here's a map of where Slovácko (Moravian Slovakia) is located in Czechia and what the microregions of it are. 







Now let's take a look at the Kyjov area. Here we find a clear distinction between the northern costumes of Kyjov and Vracov, and the southern costumes of the Svatobořice-Mistřín area. Then there's also the costumes from around Šardice and Hovorany, which look similar to the costume of Podluží, but there is tell signs like the men's hat and boots and the women's costume, which are a dead giveaway that it's a Kyjov costume.


Hovorany


Hovorany


Svatobořice-Mistřín


Milotice


Ratíškovice



Now with the costumes of Vracov and Kyjov (severokyjovský kroj) we will see a distinction between the regular men's costume and that of a "stárek" (elder). Each village has a "chasa" (kind of like the village youth, I guess), who wear folk costumes and participate in the local festivals and traditions. Each year, the chasa chooses two male and female elders, who play a big role in organising the festivals that year. I don't know of any particular distinction in the women's costume, but the two male elders wear knee length yellow (Kyjov) or tan (Vracov) breeches instead of long dark blue trousers that are usually worn. Beneath the breeches they wear blue socks. In Kyjov they also wear shirts with very starched sleeves, which means they can't wear a jacket. In general unmarried men wear more and longer decorative ribbons and sometimes also peacock feathers and rosemary twigs although married men wear those too.


Vracov


Vracov (stárek)


Kyjov


Kyjov


Kyjov (note how they wear much less ribbons than the unmarried lads and no white feathers in their hats)


Kyjov (the two elders really stand out next to the others)


(a closer look at an elder dancing the verbuňk, notice the massive starched sleeves and the blue socks beneath the breeches)

Here's some comstumes from Strážnice and up towards Uherský Ostroh (not included).



Strážnice



Petrov



Petrov



Rohatec



Rohatec



Veselí nad Moravou



Veselí nad Moravou



Kněždub

Let us continue with more costumes from around Uhersky Brod, Uherské Hradiště and Uhersky Ostroh. Since I already posted the costume of Vlčnov, I won't include it here again. You can see that the men's shirts feature very big starched sleeves. 



Babice



Bílovice



Blatnice pod Sv. Antonínkem



Boršice u Blatnice



Boršice



Břestky



Březolupy



Buchlovice



Hluk



Jalubí



Kněžpole


Kostelany nad Moravou


Kudlovice


Kunovice


Míkovice


Ostrožská Nová Ves


Podhradí


Podolí


Polešovice


Sady


Staré Město


Stříbrnice


Šumice


Traplice


Tučapy


Tupesy


Uhersky Brod


Uhersky Ostroh


Újezdec u Luhačovic


Velehrad


Zlechov