Popular costume represents a document of life and belongs to a complex area of Romanian folk art. Elucidation of the important problems of ethnogenesis is possible by deciphering and analyzing the elements making up the country’s national costume.

The study of our peasants’ costume is historically difficult to litter the road because we are missing the link which connects the past centuries, keeping only the parts of the eighteenth century and the nineteenth century.

The most valuable documents for Romanian folk costumes are Roman monuments: ”Trophaeum Traiani” from Adamclisi, Dobrogea and ”Trajan’s Column” situated in Rome. These monuments show us identical items from mens’ and womens’ clothing like those we find today.

The archaeologists who have turned their attention to the feudal era culture discovered in Suceava embroidery dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with the same shape and ornaments that is found today in Romanian villages.

The most valuable source of information is the ethnographic material kept in museums. It helps us understand the specific nature of peasant’s costume, the place held by it in people’s life and role is in building the culture and art.

Even if the Romanian port has a basic unit structure, he received during history different aspects from a region to another. The key that features folk costume to join all across the country are related to the use of white woven hemp, flax, cotton, borangic producted in households and color, which is characterized by freshness and harmony.

A characteristic to the Romanian male port is represented by trausers made of white thickcloth and for summer white cloth trausers which follow the body lines. On the holidays they are wearing boots, and in ordinary days men wear hobnailed boots. Sleeved shirt wide open, reaching almost to the knees, is tight on the waist with a belt nicely decorated. In summer they wear a black jacket over the shirt, and for cool-season and winter a flowery breastplate sheepskin fur done on one shoulder is added and a dress coat over it. In summer, men wear hats with big borides and a winter hat high pick.

Romanian women ports are distinguished by embroidered blouses and by foot flap and close on the waist with a wide belt, woven of smooth and nicely decorated. Another characteristic of female garment is rectangular fabric of wool, fastened above the waist by a girdle of wool with rich ornamentation. Young women sets the lower corner of their peasants’ skirts to the waist, thus making visible the embroidery. They usually wear high boots, but on holidays they wear shoes. Young women cover their head with a bandana imprinted with roses, left on the neck, so a part of the head remains uncovered. Older women completely cover their head with a dark scarf, tied under the chin. Over the embroidered dresses, a leather breastplate sheepskin fur is weared in summer, and decorated with motifs of flowers often hemmed with fur in cool-seasons.

Young also bears colored beads with ribbons. In winter, women wear a bundle made by lamb fur. Only older women wear ankle-coat.

Protection of the womens’ head and the shirt, both women and men, have a special service: the wedding kerchief was used as a sign of transformation of young girls married woman, but same kerchief was put in the tree on the grave of the deceased unmarried. Shirts worn during the wedding by the bride and groom are then retained throughout life, representing their funeral clothes. Standing ordinary footwear was sandals, made from Obie, parcel of strips of wool fabric that protects the foot.

Many of the mysteries of the craft were lost and many traditions have changed. All the knowledge about Romanian popular costume fabricatio is kept anonymous by craftmen, and every peasant girl needs to know how to spin and weave before having a family.