Very old Romanian handmade dress with splendid hand embroidery

Traditional Romanian Dress or Romanian Blouse with Skirt from Oltenia

This is an old, hand-sewn Romanian folk blouse dress made on fine homemade fabric. The colors of the cross-stitch embroidery are black, green, and brown. It is size L or even XL, but suitable for a lady no taller than 1.65 m (5'5").

The blouse was found without a hem, frayed at the bottom. I have hand hemmed it and attached it to the skirts by hand. It can be easily separated to make a blouse and skirts separately if you have old handmade  fabric to extend the Romanian  blouse. The skirt still have the tunnel for elastic on the inside.

Measurements:

Sleeve length from neck: 59 cm (23.23 inches)

Blouse length: 109 cm (42.91 inches) with 36 cm (14.17 inches) to the waist

Chest circumference: 130 cm (51.18 inches)

Waist circumference: 130 cm (51.18 inches)

Armhole: 44 cm (17.32 inches)

It is not torn or repaired.It is washed and ready to wear. Here and there you can see 2-3 loose threads in the embroidery; I believe there were once sequins attached, but I did not find any sequins on it.

The black color is slightly faded, but this does not detract from its beauty at all.

With a pair of matching aprons and a belt, you will have a complete traditional Romanian costume.