The costumes of the Cao Lan people are divided into two different categories: regular clothes and festive costumes. The wedding attire of the Cao Lan people is not much different from the usual.
Casual clothes
Men's wear: indigo or dyed black, with a beret attached. In addition to hats, shirts and pants also have clogs made of wood. But just go clogs on ceremonies, New Year, funerals, weddings. And on normal days, they go barefoot.
Women's clothing: is more complex than men's clothing, women's clothing includes: headscarves, shirts, skirts, leggings, belts, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and knife boxes. Cao Lan women's shirts are mainly indigo or black, with a four-button top, sewn on a row of diagonal buttons. Button buttons are closed on the ribs, buttons on the right hand is married women, buttons button is closed on the left is unmarried women or widows, to distinguish unmarried women from women our widows look at their bangles. If a widower or husband dies, they wear two silver bracelets on both hands, while unmarried women wear only one silver bracelet on the left. On festivals and festivals, they usually go to the clogs (drama) and the day is to go barefoot.
Costumes for children: Both boys and girls, are made in the style of an adult, but the color of children's clothes can be dyed different colors, but it is also a dark color. Children often wear necklaces, not bracelets and earrings, because the necklace has a concept that is more attached to the child's life and to exorcise the baby, on the other hand, wearing a necklace on the neck is not easy to lose. like wearing in the hands and ears, children are more lost.
Holiday outfits
On holidays, festivals or festivals, the costumes of men, women and children are no different than normal days, but on holidays or festivals, they will wear the best clothes of yourself to attend festivals, holidays.
As for the priest's costume, it is changed according to the holidays such as on the family feast day, the communal householder must wear his "Tu Dinh" outfit which is a long dress sewn like the four-body ones of the people. The long-necked, sewn-knit tops were long, the pants also long along the length of the blouse and Tu Dinh had to wear a beret. Wearing a pair of cloth shoes also sewn with black fabric not decorated with patterns. If in the funeral, the teacher's clothes are different and there are two types. For the priest is a clothes made of indigo fabric, the shirt is also sewn in a four-prong form in addition to a waistband is attached with a knife box to follow that waist band so that the priest can attach a knife or a sword to do magic in the funeral, in addition to a strip of towels also sewn with indigo fabric, be worshiped by the head and tied on the left side of the temple's temple. If the funeral is a woman, it is tied on the right.
In addition to the priest's attire, the master's outfit is only worn if the family is able to build a garage (flower house) for the deceased after the funeral. This was worn by a worshiper and was called a miller (sorcerer). This outfit is very unique and decorated with many different colorful patterns. Like a flower house decorated for the dead. The body of the shirt is decorated with a lot of different patterns, but the highlight is the black color interlaced, the miller must wear a pair of canvas shoes, the pointed toe of the shoe and the shoes are also decorated with patterns such as a shirt and a miller. He also wore a paper hat with black, yellow, blue and red fringed tails falling down to his face and the miller's clothes without a waistband.
At the wedding, the bride and groom's outfit is no different from the usual clothes but everything must be new on the wedding day and the bride must wear a new hat and the groom must wear a new hat. when going to pick the bride.
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