THE TRADITIONAL COSTUME OF THE SARAKATCHANS IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Abstract

In the research of the ethnical and cultural past of a people the traditional costume has an important place. It is an inseparable part of the human life, directly connected to the esthetical and cultural notions of the community to which it belongs. It has an apothropical and decorative function, and at the same time it is a national flag of the ethnical community to which it belongs. The traditional costume also directly depends on the external factors, such as the climate, the land structure; therefore it is a kind of a mute witness of the economic functions, the degree of cultural development, as well as the cultural and historical changes that have been happening in the actual ethnic community.