Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1886 — Servian Mountaineers. [ARTICLE]

Servian Mountaineers.

Mountaineers are said to be “always freemen;” one can with equal truthfulness add that the costumes of mountaineers’ wives and daughters are always more picturesque than those of their sisters in the valleys. In these Balkan mountains their costumes are a truly wonderful blending of colors, to say nothing of fantastic patterns, apparently a medley of ideas borrowed from Occident and Orient. One wo- , maU we just passed is wearing the flowing pantaloons of the t Orient, of a bright yellow color, a tight fitting jacket of equally bright blue; around her waist is folded many times a red ( and blue striped waistband, while both' head and feet are bare. This is no holiday attire, it is plainly the ordinary every day costume. — Ou ting.

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