Pants Item Number: 3052/26 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Wool pants (part of a man's costume with 3052/25-32). Pants are full length with wide legs and an elasticized waist. Colour is bright red, with heavily embroidered cuffs in yellow and green zigzag lines and diamond shapes, embellished with multi-coloured sequence. Above the cuffs on the outside of the pant leg is a linear motif in the same colours, also with sequence and beads, from which springs zigzagging lines in yellow, green and metallic silver, running from cuff to waist.

Narrative

Early 20th century Hutsul style man's costume, of the village of Kosmach, in the Kosiv district, in the Ivano Frankivsk region, Ukraine.