Tag Archives: Costume

Brazilian traditional costume

By ilyani | Published 2 June, 2009

I can’t remember if I had postcards of traditional costume from countries except in Europe and Asia, but I happen to have a couple from Brazil, which is great! And these pictures are like as if they’re on a set of film shooting or something :D

Sent by Bebelzis

Sent by Bebelzis

The man is doing the traditional cigarette Cigarro de Palha - basically a bunch of tobacco rolled by a straw of maize. And I love the dress the woman is wearing! :)

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Sent by Bebelzis and Lu_corseuil (I got duplicates)

This is some traditional barbecue with the floor fire, and man drinking Chimarrão, a kind of baverage with green tea. Drinking Chimarrão is a common social practice in Brazil.

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Arab men

By ilyani | Published 31 May, 2009

Among the Saudi Arabia postcards that I received there are some with people on them. However, I noticed that they are only men on the pictures.. no single woman! Though obviously, Saudi Arabia does have female population, I have come to realize that they don’t really expose their women for a reason or another. So until I ever get a postcard showing an Arab woman, here are the men first..

From Deepdowne. This is a leisure view at the Janadriyah Souq market where they have carpets, accessories and clothings on sale. I was amazed to see that women do not work in business field in KSA.. even the cosmetics shops are taken care by male shop assistants!

From Deepdowne. I am not sure what kind of social meeting they have under a tent like this.. on this card it says “Hail maountains: “Welcome to Ughdah!”"

This card was among a bunch which my ex-classmate Reema bought for me during vacation in her hometown in Medinah in 2007. These blades are handmade daggers in Najran. Okay, regarding the costume these men are wearing.. it’s the traditional dress they usually wear all times in the country.. either as formal or non-formal dress. There are many Arab students in my university sometimes you can see them wearing like this especially on Fridays… well, minus the headgears. So if you visit KSA, you’ll see most men in white and women in black :D

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I found this picture that may help you know the name of the dress and accesories.

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Postcard Friendship Friday in Holland!

By ilyani | Published 22 May, 2009

Once upon a time in Holland, there lived a girl named Little.

Young Little and her mom and brother lived in a village where there was a huge windmill. Like everyone else in Holland at that time, they wore wooden shoes.. but they looked very comfortable.

One day, Little and her friends went to watch the sails at the sea. They had a great time there. But once she realized that everyone but her seemed to have a boyfriend. Little felt so lonely.

Little’s friends along with the boys went to pick blue tulips in the field and left her alone. Not that blue tulips really existed, but everything seemed to be blue at that time anyway. Little was very sad, but not for long…

Coz later, she got a boyfriend too, yay! And he’s even cuter! Little also got to dress in a beautiful colorful costume which has real stitching on this postcard! Cool, isn’t it? They continued picking colorful tulips and lived happily ever after.  Little and Littleboy wish everyone a Happy Postcard Friendship Friday!

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P.S. The above Dutch postcards were sent by my lovely buddies Littlebloempje, Lauraarual, Eowyn and Vessie.. thanks a bunch and somehow Imajica managed to come up with this weird short story :P

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