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The island of Sardinia is an autonomous region of Italy. There you will have the chance to hear the Sardinian language sometimes, considered by many scholars the closest to Latin, and see some of the most diverse traditional costumes in the world.

Each village and town has its own traditional outfits, incredibly different from each other. These are usually worn during important celebrations, when hundreds of Sardinian women and men gather and parade in their folk costumes.

Johara is from a small Sardinian town called Ottana. I met her 10 days ago, during the Feast of the Redeemer in Nuoro, a few kilometres from her home. I continue my journey in Italy and these days I’m in Milan with The Atlas of Beauty.

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Le danseur. André Louis Maxime Humbert (French, 1879-). Oil on canvas.

Humbert was comfortable painting works of dancers, the circus, the theatre, and the opera. He was skilled at depicting his subjects in movement, as seen in Le danseur.

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http://pin.it/yHgzDcN Greek

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Alexandria, also known as Ghidás, Imathia. The region was formally known as Roumlouki (land of the Greeks). The bridal costume with its characteristic headdress composed of several parts.

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Traditional Puglia Pacchiana

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Queen Olga of Greece court dress inspired by the Attica bridal dress. It has an added long train when worn in court.

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A unique late 18th c. costume from Kymi in Euboea made of two types of French silk brocade in a composition which changed by the middle of the 19th c.

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Castellers, Barcelona, Spain

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Francisco Soria Aedo

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Grece,1912. photo of a girl with evzone’s dress.

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Georges Louis Poilleux-Saint-Ange, allegory of France

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Greece Fashion Week: Traditional clothing of (from right to left) a Christian resident of Ammochostos (Famagusta, Cyprus), a Christian woman of Magossa, and a Greek monk of the Monastery of Tchiko (Kykkos), near Lefka. Photo of 1873.

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Greece Fashion Week: Pontic Greek women in Trebizond

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Greece Fashion Week: Traditional dress of Greece by ccdoh1