File:Gourgeous holiday costumes of Roumanian Peasantry 03691v.jpg

English: Title: Gourgeous holiday costumes of Roumanian Peasantry. Beautiful hand embroidered over dresses, and filmy hand made lace scarfs, were common enough in Roumania among the peasant women, before the German Bulgar Turk occupation during the war. Now these gorgeous costumes are only seen in remote villages where the Hun or Turk looters either stopped for a short time only, or did not visit at all. Garments of this character are heirlooms handed down from mother to daughter. And it is difficult to calculate their value. Today there is a serious shortage of woolen and cotton garments in Roumania, and even their ordinary peasant costumes, in which plain white wool or cotton are largely used are really luxuries. It was to relieve this situation that the American Red Cross brought tons of substantial wearing apparel bath robes and hospital garments mainly from the big stores that had been originally sent to the warehouses of France for use of the American Army and distributed this stuff to the sufferers in Roumania. Women of the country were employed to make the garments into warm dresses for needy Roumanian boys and girls and for the babies

Date Created/Published: 25 July 1919 [date received] Medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-anrc-03691 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection,"(https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html) Call Number: LC-A6195- 6212 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Notes: Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC, Official Red Cross Photo. Group title: Roumania. Used in: Hold until published by Bulletin. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc

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