The Folk Costumes of Prespa

The villages along the bank of the Prespa Lake have two different costumes each of which carries different stylistic and esthetic characteristics. The costume of Gorna Prespa (Upper Prespa) resembles the national clothing of the town Resen with only minor differences and the costume of Dolna Prespa (Lower Prespa).

The female costume of Gorna Prespa (Upper Prespa) consists of a shirt made of a thin fabric ornamented with stylized vegetal motif on the sleeves embroidered in woolen and silk variegated threads, covered by a jube of a striped/patterned fabric and a shegun made of a white klashna with short sleeves ornamented with woolen decorations and braids. The apron skutina presemnik is placed around the waist with a long black woolen sash. A characteristic feature of the bridal act is the upper clothing item jube made of a black thick fabric choya ornamented with glitter décor.

Dolna Prespa (Lower Prespa) is located on the most southern border point and there are only a few villages on the Macedonian side. The rest are on the other side of the border. The national costume of this region is very simple. Several preserved exemplars from the late 19^th century were totally different to those of Gorna Prespa (Upper Prespa). The shirts have opulent embroidery on the sleeves, the clothing items – sheguni, resachki, ornamented aprons skutini chultar with decorative fringes made of choya as well as the patterned knitted socks all in a light red color make up the costume of this region. But instead of this light and picturesque costume under the influence of the komiti in the period before the Ilinden Rising and especially after the rising in 1903 black clothing items are worn as a sign of mourning for the unsuccessful attempt for liberation. Those costumes where the clothing items are prepared and ornamented in black fabric rapidly expand to the neighboring regions – the Prilep Plain, the Bitola Plain, Upper villages of Bitola, the Lerin Plain.

Narodnite nosii vo Prespa

Vo selata po bregot na Prespanskoto Ezero ozna~eni so toponimot Prespa se nosat dve razli~ni nosii, sekoja od niv so poinakvi stilski i estetski karakteristiki - nosijata od Gorna Prespa, kon koja so nezna~itelni razliki se nriklu~uva i narodnoto oblekuvawe od gradot Resen, i nosijata od Dolna Prespa.

Vo Gorna Prespa `enskata nosija se sostoi od ko{ula od tenko platno, ukrasena so izvezeni stilizirani vegetabilni motivi na rakavite, od volneni ili svileni raznobojni konci, vrz koja se oblekuva xupa od prugasto - {aren materijal i {egun od bela kla{na so kusi rakavi, ukraseni so volneni potkiti i gajtani. Skutinata predsemnik se opa{uva pod polovinata, kade {to se nao|a mnogupati obvien crn, dolg, pleten volnen pojas. Karakteristika na nevestinstvoto e gornata obleka xube od crna ~oja so rasko{ni ukrasi od srma.

Dolna Prespa se nao|a vo najju`niot grani~en del i samo nekolku sela se na teritorijata na Makedonija, a site ostanati od drugata strana na granicata.

Narodnata nosija od ovoj predel e ve}e sosema izobi~aena. Od nekoi za~uvani primeroci doznavame deka nekoga{nite obleki, odnosno onie {to bile vo upotreba do krajot na 19 vek, bile sosema poinakvi od tie vo Gorna Prespa. Ko{ulite se so bogat vez na rakavite, kla{nenite obleki - {eguni, resa~ki, dekorativnite tkaeni skutini ~ultar, so bogatite resnati ukrasi od ~oja, kako i {arenite pleteni ~orapi, site vo svetlocrvena boja, ja oformuvaat nosijata od ovoj region. No namesto ovaa nosija, vo koja dominirale izvezeni i vtkaeni motivi vo svetli i `ivi boi, pod vlijanie na komitskite akcii vo predilindenskiot period, a osobeno po vostanieto od 1903 godina, po~nuvaat, kako izraz na `alost za neuspe{niot obid za osloboduvawe, da se nosat obleki glavno vo crna boja. Tie nosii, vo koi site delovi od nosijata se prigotveni i ukraseni so materijali vo crna boja, brzo se pro{iruvaat i vo drugite sosedni regioni - Prilepsko Pole, Bitolsko Pole, Gorni Bitolski sela, Lerinsko Pole.