In Austria we have this sentence: "if every woman would wear a Dirndl (= our folk costume), there would be no ugliness in the world." After watching you in this amazing outfit, I think the correct sentence would be: "if every woman would wear the folk costume of her home country, there would be no ugliness in the world." You look stunningly beautiful! May we all keep our traditions alive and make the world more beautiful around us. Greetings from Austria 😍

@UYTRELLO

9 ай бұрын

That's a wise, fair sentence.

Thank you for this. We Americans get rather peeved when people think there is only one region that is "American" but we forget that Europe is also a multi-regional/ethnic/ country place with more unique cultures than our little minds can imagine. There is such a rich history in one outfit.

ojej jak miło wiedzieć że się tu u nas wychowałaś :)

European folk clothing is a bit of a weird beast, because some of it is genuinely the clothes worn by the common people, and some of it is well off city people making cottagecore outfits. Also, depending on the region, the folk costumes are either treated like a uniform with very strict rules and little room for self expression, or like regular clothing that has its own fashion trends and changes with time.

@wednes3day

10 ай бұрын

I'm also wondering if certain regions even have any set "folk" clothing at all? Bavaria has its outfits intentionally .. but for example the rest of Germany and France I can't think of too much from?

@lady_sir_knight3713

10 ай бұрын

@@wednes3dayyes, there are SO many folk costumes across germany and france! you don’t see them bc unlike the generalized austrian/bavarian costume they remain highly regional and somewhat obscure.

@wednes3day

10 ай бұрын

@@lady_sir_knight3713 I'm guessing you would have to go into the villages? Idk, I've tried to look for something for a certain region and literally all that came up were maybe at most 2 old photographs per village (if that) on pretty much a single website

@laurasustich6313

10 ай бұрын

My mothers family was from Lithuania. Lithuanians who moved to the U.S. formed Lithuanian Clubs. My mother had a folk costume a bit like yours. I love the history behind the folk costume. I am glad your are keeping the history alive. Thank you.

@adelamichalikova8682

10 ай бұрын

​@@lady_sir_knight3713yes, also unlike in Bavaria and Austria, they have mostly not been worn for quite some time except for dedicated folk festivals etc.

More folk costumes, please!

Beautiful dress! Just an FYI. Kashubians were some of the first Polish settlers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They settled on what is called Jones Island and fished Lake Michigan. Jones Island has an interesting history. Sort of set apart from the main city of Milwaukee. Being from Milwaukee County and knowing these people were called "Kashubes"(although I never knew why), my curiosity of peaked. I don't know if you would be interested or not, but there is a lot on the Internet about it. Always enjoy your videos.

"three different blues, for the sky, for the lakes, and for something else that is blue" 😂😂

That's so cool you are from Poland. I'm half Polish, and have made a few Polish folk costumes in the past, although in a much smaller scale, for dolls! Your videos are a great help making historic costumes too.

@patricianunes3521

10 ай бұрын

Polish people have a reputation for being friendly. It is true. One of my best friend is of Polish descent

What a surprise 😲 I'm watching your films since a long time, and didn't know you've born here. All the best. Pozdrowienia 🙏🙋🍀

Świetny pomysł, żeby pokazać coś na ludowo. Szczególnie, że stròj kaszubski jest piękny i haft specyficzny.

You are so cute in this folk dress!! I love when you share more about your Polish heritage for us English speaking viewers!

I love your Kashubian folk dress ! It resembles some of the norwegian "bunads". (festive folk dresses wich are extremely popular). Normally people wear bunads related to their origin. My present bunad is from Hardanger, in the western fjords area, but as a toddler I had a Dirndl. A gift from german family friends. I have both norwegian, swedish, and icelandic ancestry, so can choose folk dresses from several places. I'd like to get an icelandic folk dress. In black silk with gold emboidery, and a hennin head dress ! Love from Norway 🇳🇴

In Germany, they are called Dirndle. The headwear is different, but the dirndle is similar to your dress with a bodice, blouse, and skirt.

@aoielf

10 ай бұрын

Bunads and Folkdräkt in Sweden are also very similar.

@christianaweber6349

10 ай бұрын

Trachte in German.

OMG, I’m Polish, this is soo nice to find out, that you are also❤❤❤ And tomorow I’m going tomorrow Kaszuby for holidays❤

Omg, you are from Poland. How nice. I'm also from Poland. Greatings frim Zamość 😊

Absolutely gorgeous ❤ I love that countries used to have such beautiful and functional garments in history. Would love to see more of historical Polish dress, have seen some of Karolina Zebrowska's videos on more modern garments and it's so cool to see!

Just finished re-reading Gunter Grass' book The Tin Drum. Many of the characters in this novel are identified as Kashubian--especially the protagonist's Kashubian grandmother who in the book wore 4 skirts at all times, rotating them each week. Loved your folk costume!

On my dad's side of the family, the branch my last name is from, I was told we were Polish--and we were! but the nationality listed when those ancestors came over was Prussia! This was the mid/late 1800's. They settled in Northeast Michigan, not far from Alpena. There were a lot of families there of Polish descent, but they were often from different parts of Poland, and my grandpa remembers him and his elementary classmates arguing about the "correct" Polish words for things, not realizing there were multiple dialects of Polish! Anyway, I love my Polish last name. Only four letters and easy to say, but pretty unique in the USA.

What you are wearing is absolutely stunning!

When I went to Germany where I was born I loved going to the old homes that belonged to family. Looking into churches were amazing. There was one church in the alps that had a little girl lying inside a glass coffin. Her skeleton was dressed in silver with jewels all around her head on top of a very pretty cap. The church changed her dress and all that she wore underneath every holiday or of some church function. That one stood out to me.

@sd-ch2cq

10 ай бұрын

These jewel-clad skeletons are usually part of the same 'pretending to be medieval but actually being from the 19th century' trend. During the protestant reformation a lot of gold-encrusted saint relicts were destroyed. The catholic church replaced those with new skeletons with even more gold on them, to keep something on display for pilgrims. But nowadays the church is kinda embarrassed about such shameless bling.

Well , i have to say that this is a surprise. Thank you very much. No one has ever explained a Polish regional costume so well. Maybe you could contiue the thread, PLEASE. . Dzięki.

Szczerze mówiąc, ostatnia rzecz jakiej się spodziewałam, ale bardzo miła niespodzianka❤

Strój kaszubski jest jeden z piękniejszych strojów ludowych w Polsce. Osobiście bardzo lubię stroje łowickie i niezwykle bogate stroje ludowe żywieckie, pozdrawiam serdecznie

@nulliusinverba3701

3 ай бұрын

Ja sadze ze wszystkie stroje- ludowe swiata sa piękne. Bo to byli niezamożni ludzie którzy mimo to tez chcieli miec cos pięknego w ubiorze.:)

Stupendous folk costume, appreciated Izabella! Poland is a much rich country for her landacapes, folklore, and her people.

I can't believe you are from Poland... you have perfect british accent! xD

Thank you so much for this video! Poland has a very special place in my heart. My husband and I visited in 2018 on a Catholic pilgrimage, In the footsteps of St. John Paul 2 and St. Faustina Kowalska, Divine Mercy! Your country is beautiful and so are the people. The food was pretty good too! I do hope I'll be able to visit again someday. God bless you and your family!

@priorattire

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I am an atheist though and think religion is responsible for a lot of bad things in my old country

I love European Folk Clothing because they still contain elements of historical fashion and survive the currents of changing times.

My husband’s family is of Kashubian origin, coming to the US in 1866. Thank you so much for this video!

Ma Pani złote ręcei ogromny zasób kreatywności,gratuluję.Piękne kostiumy aż czasem żal,że już tylko kostiumy.🌹Serdecznie pozdrawiam z Kaszub

@jayneterry8701

10 ай бұрын

🙏🇨🇦

I always loved Kashubian folk costume. I would definitely wear parts of it with modern clothes today, like this amazing shirt, it's to die for. I think I need a browse on their website. And those stays turned out beautifully!

Beautiful and very touching video. The costume is beautiful and what a lovely place that is.

Your costume is beautiful!! Thanks so much for sharing your early memories of home. Your Mom is lovely,we see who you take after!! 😊💖

May I just compliment you on choosing Chopin for the music! The waltz is lovely, a dance for the soul, and from a Polish composer at that

I live in the Kashubian district! Great seeing this! It's beautiful!

Very enjoyable. The homes and clothing very pretty. Thank you

I love this costume. It looks so neat and pretty while not having the excess that some other folk costumes do.

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

10 ай бұрын

The exess of fabric is to mirror your wealth. Same with jewellery. Some norwegian folk dresses (bunads) are made of linen (shirt/blouse), and wool (skirt and bodice). But the neckerchief is imported damask silk. Not home spun... Love from Norway 🇳🇴

Such a lovely outfit! I love the blues. And the cottage behind you is so charming!

Omg there's a folk costume from our Black Sea region, this made me remember it! Yours look magnificient, such a beautiful craftmanship

A beautiful area. Thank you for sharing some of your homeland

Bardzo miło poznać Pani Mamę i zobaczyć strony rodzinne 🌻☺️. Filmik zamieszczony 13 sierpnia, z pewnością nie przypadkiem (13 - 15 sierpnia - decydująca faza Bitwy Warszawskiej, która przesądziła o losach wojny polsko - bolszewickiej 1920r). Oglądam kanał, jestem pod wrażeniem Pani talentu, wyobraźni i ogromu wykonanej pracy. Pozdrawiam serdecznie z Polski, mieszkam blisko Krakowa ❤️🙋‍♀️💐🌹

@priorattire

10 ай бұрын

Complete coincidence with the date.

I would wear those clothes every day of I could! Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for sharing a little of your history.

That is the most beautiful color and embroidery ever.

No tego się nie spodziewałam 😲

Shame you lost some video. Thank you for what you did have, it was very interesting.

I would like to see more folk costumes, because this is folk memory. And this memory must be preserved, so that external imperial enemies do not erase it. You are a person of great cultural and noble cause. You should be given an international cultural prize from UNESCO.🤩🤩🤩🤗🧐😎🤌🤌☝☝👍👍👍

It's lovely! I didn't know you were from this region :). I was in Kashubia the last week of July for the regional folk dance festival (we stayed in Brusy, but also visited the museum you shot this in in Wdzydze and we had a performance closeby). There were a lot of local dance groups, so we got to see quite a bit of the folk costume, and it's really lovely to see your version. Definitely love the stays with it! I took a couple of pictures of the embroidery motifs from the various museums we visited, they are all really lovely. Was the photo exhibition on in the Wdzydze museum when you were there? I really loved those images (I took a couple of pictures, but it was difficult due to the glass covers), and I thought it was interesting how all of them showed the more 'fashionable' 1890's styles and I couldn't really pick out the more regional styles in those. It made me wonder if the current regional costume is a bit of an 19th century invention mixing different traditional elements together.

This is wonderful. I don't know anywhere near enough about Polish folk costumes, more of a general idea, so it's really nice to get a closer look at a particular one I haven't encountered properly yet. 💙 (Also, while we Czechs did not have partitions, we were in a similar boat with much the same attitude towards folk costumes! That slightly awkward bit about the symbolism of red is familiar; that's what I remember we were taught in school about the red in our flag... which is veeeery similar to yours, and in fact used to be identical! Not sure what that was about 😅 but it does show we have the same roots in many respects... No sea or amber, though. 😁 )

What I really like about this is how it demonstrates the ways in which very subtle symbols can be so effective at ensuring culture is transmitted through generations.

So funny. At first I thought it was the Norwegian bunad (folkdrakt). We do have different variations, depending on which part of the country you are from. But we have longer skirt,and white blouses. The head piece also do vary.

@jonesnori

10 ай бұрын

I was just reading about dirndls, the Bavarian and Austrian folk dress. There seem to be a lot of shared elements across a lot of Europe, but the regional dress is still quite distinct. They're all so beautiful!

Dziękuję za pokazywanie stroje regionalne Polski! Kiedyś próbowałam szukać troche o nich ale za dużo nie znalazłam, jakie zaskoczenie dzisiaj rano jak zauważyłam ten filmik!😂

I love folk costumes so much! You look beautiful!

So beautiful! Your folk costume was absolutely stunning! I loved the color and the Handcraft!

I should have waited to do my comment - those stayes are much more beautiful without the apron !!

My great grandparents were from the Swabian region in Germany. My grandmother was the first in their family to be born in the US after they immigrated. I LOVE folk costumes from the region.

Your outfit turned out well. I think that the lacing is fine. Back in the day, each piece was for the comfort of the wearer with slight alterations. You will find all kinds of examples. The embroidery reminds me of Polish pottery. I do wish that more of national costume had more of an influence in today's fashion. Then clothes would have far less of a generic feel to them. I wear a cotton Hanbok made from solid black and sugar skulls printed fabric and use hot pink ribbons as a trim and closure. My birth family would be horrified but I don't have much to do with them anymore. I wear it as an ordinary outfit.

Super film, Iza! Mam ok godzinę jazdy do Wddydz. Pięknie ci w tym stroju.

Thank you for this interesting video! The folk costume is really beautiful and looks great on you! I hope you have a wonderful time with your family during your visit.

i love this so much!! so lovely to hear you talk about your heritage and childhood. the dress is absolutely lovely. as always thanks for sharing!!!

Thank you for the fascinating look into your roots!

Something completely different but wonderful to see...❤

Beautiful!!!

What a lovely outfit and atmosphere! So much culture! Such great effort went into this outfit!

I was so excited to watch this! One of my favorite trips was a kayaking trip in this region, and I visited that historic museum. One of my fondest memories ever!

The embroidery is so beautiful like a bouquet. I was wondering since folk dress was suppressed during the period of no having a country called Poland, did the women as an act of rebellion make them stating that they were bridal attire?

I love the one with you by the sunflowers and the big green water pump. The colors are beautiful, but you look like Thumbelina for a second or too. I really hope you had a great trip and will try to get footage on your next trip. If you are already back, good, but if not, be careful the airlines are going crazy again.

Thank you for giving us a window into this part of your life, I love your costume, it looks amazing on you too

Thank you so much for this! I have loved your videos for years and this was so lovely to discover. Traditional clothes has so many beautiful details.

Wow that is beautiful, and the video was very educational. So sorry that you lost much of the "film".

That was really amazing Izabelle !! Absolutely love that dress, and nice to see your home country, looks very nice place to stay !!

Wow! I didn’t realized that you were polish, I always assumed you were English. Thanks for making a video about folks costumes, there always interesting.

You look gorgeous in this costume and the hat is very flattering

Oh, c'est tellement intéressant ! J'ai vu un reportage sur la chaine TV franco allemande Arte, un beau reportage sur la culture encre très vivante de cette partie de la Pologne. J'aime beaucoup les broderies de couleurs, je suis petite fille de brodeuse et ma grand mère faisait principalement du blanc sur blanc pour sa clientèle mais elle aimait s'amuser à faire de belles pièces de couleurs, que j'ai gardées précieusement. Ma meilleure amie est Serbe et elle s'est brodé une chemise un peu comme la tienne mais avec des coloris plus vert sombre et rouges vif...

My favourite video yet, as i have loved folk costumes ever since I was a little German-British girl wearing dirndls and collecting costume dolls. Thanks for this insight into the costume (and the homes) of the region, the half-timbered houses were interesting to me, too, as they are differently constructed everywhere (I live in one in Switzerland).

Very Pretty outfit, pretty choice of colors and sweet stitched designs; please Keep up the great work, MUCH appreciated

I love the stripes on the skirt

Love this thank you! It’s really interesting as other countries’ historical clothing (or anyone else’s history at all) is not something we get to learn much about in the UK and it’s lovely to learn about your home country. Especially the colour significances, never heard of that before.

Thank you , this is such a nice video! It’s super interesting about the costumes, I live in the Basque Country their costumes are really plain only the men’s are more elaborate but they so much stick to their culture and traditions it’s wonderful to keep it going. By the way there’s a dance festival here each year with peoples all over the world we had Slovaque and Valassko they were absolute stars as far as their clothing. Fingers crossed for you I love your channel it’s amazing !

@beth12svist

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear that about the costumes, I am Czech and love the costume from Valašsko (one side of my family originally comes from there). 😊 It's actually one of the simplest ones as Czech folk costumes go, from a remote hilly region, without layers of petticoats or big puffy sleeves or rich silk fabrics; but it makes up for it in how striking it is and how well it all goes together!

Thank you for sharing this! It's so interesting 😊

My great grabdmother was from Krakow, I hope I didn't spell that wrong. Andmy Father's family supposedly deserted to Poland from Napoleon's army on the way to Russia. At keast that's what my Grandfather told us.

Beautiful embroidery. I'm curious how daily wear looks: would they cycle clothes from 'sunday' to 'daily' to 'dirty work', or would it be very different clothes?

@Judoka26

9 ай бұрын

As far as I'm aware there were daily clothes and sunday outfits. The sunday versions were more ornate and had delicate decorations. And as far as my traditional clothes here in switzerland go, your sunday outfit could feature a lot of expensive jewelry aswell as complicated laces and hats. For events aswell as sundays church you could wear the special things. When people wear our folk costumes today they tend to wear the sunday versions.

Another fantastic video. Love your costume❤

That's so cool! Just last week I was in Prusczc and Gdansk for vacation. Loved it there and hope I can visit again.

I love that costume. It looks nice on you. The embroidery is lovely. That's frustrating about the lost footage after the work you put into it.

So beautiful! Your folk costume was absolutely stunning! I loved the color, it was so rich and lovely the embroidery was also lovely❤

I would never thought you are from Poland :O Nice to find out, and thank you for telling us about the dress

Well that was delightful. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Och jak miło:) Greetings from Poland I subscribe and have been watching for some time, and here is such a nice accent for me.

That is a beautiful outfit.

Loved this! Would love more.

This outfit looks so gorgeous! Also, skirt go spinny! :D

Very pretty. I do love embroidery on traditional dresses and the symbolism behind it. Any chance, we might get the male version as well?

beautiful--thank you!!

You are so talented, its beautiful.

Lovely.

Watching this as a Kashubian girl: what a surprise! Do you mind sharing what city/village did you grow up in? Or if you would rather not for privacy reasons, then what voivodeship?

wonderful!!!!

Gorgeous!

Thank you for promoting our Polish culture

You did the costume justice

It is too late in the evening, to say all I want to! It is VERY IMPORTANT to tell the tragic history of Poland from 1756 on! Most People don't know nowadays, that Poland didn't even exist in the 1820/30's (correct me if I'm wrong). Which caused a huge Protest all over Europe at THAT time. I am a late born postwar German, without any connection to refugees of WWII. I know what Germans have done! I am aware of it, and today I fight with all effort against arousing Nazism in Germany🤬. But you are one of the rarest People to mention "Kaschubenland"! I only know it from a beautiful German Christmas Poem, addressing the birth of Jesus: "Kind, wärst du geboren bei uns im Kaschubenland..." "Child, if you were born in our Kashubenland...." Then every Stroph, Sentence describes that he wouldnt be naked but golden cloth, no cold bare feet golden shoes and so on . . . If I only knew who wrote that poem.... When you described the embroidery on the sleeves, telling the meaning of it and history of Poland it became rough! I couldn't help tears. This is, for me, one of your VERY BEST VIDEOS! Dziękuję bardzo❣️🌿☘️🌹