Hallo! Tut mir leid, wenn das nicht zu diesem Sub gehört, und ich entschuldige mich dafür, dass ich Ihnen ausgerechnet mit Eurovision Angst eingejagt habe.
Doch seit ich Ladavivas Musikvideo „Jako“ gesehen habe, als es herauskam, faszinierte mich das dekorative Kleidungsstück, das Jako um Hals und Taille trug. Mir ist klar, dass es sich möglicherweise um eine kitschige, moderne Version einer Volkstracht handelt, denn als ich nach traditionellen armenischen Volkstrachten gegoogelt habe, um herauszufinden, wie sie heißt, ist bei meinen Suchanfragen nie etwas Vergleichbares aufgetaucht. Deshalb schaue ich hier vorbei, um eine Antwort zu erhalten: Was ist das? Ist es traditionell oder soll es eine Art moderne Annäherung an die traditionelle armenische Volkstracht sein, die mir nicht bekannt ist?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen, eine neugierige Person aus der Slowakei.
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Unfortunately, you will not be able to find much on Armenian traditional clothing online, specially if you google in English.
They are not well documented outside of Armenia, let alone on the internet. And the government has not spent any effort to strengthen this “soft power”, in comparison to say Georgia.
(A simple google of Armenian traditional clothings vs Georgian traditional clothing, and the images for Armenia are littered with AI pictures for some fucking reason)
Besides that, Armenian clothing is also “fractured”, so to speak. Armenian clothing practices differed from region to region (this is not unique to us of course), however, there was a definite disconnect between Eastern and Western Armenian clothing. Most noticeable is the military garments of Eastern Armenians (Who wore like Caucasian Chechens, Circassians, Georgians, etc..) vs Western Armenians (who wore more like the Assyrians, Kurds, Arabs, Turkmens, etc…)
Like the Sasuntsis had a tradition of wearing “Turbans”, now associated with Islam and Sikhs. https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/18rwuq3/customary_law_among_sasun_armenians/ https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/1fg3xo6/sasun_armenians_սասունցիներ/ https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/1bj1b0r/martial_culture_of_the_sasun_region/?rdt=33914
Although, these hats were common practice in the region because of technical necessity, as it protected the hair from wind, dirt, water, and snow.
Compare these Armenians to this Kurdish man from Van. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bakur/comments/1hcp83f/a_beautiful_picture_of_a_young_kurdish_man_from/
Albeit, Military clothing for Armenians is much more deeper and complex, so I digress.
And modern day Armenia, being the successor of Eastern Armenian (and its traditional clothes), does not necessarily limit itself with Eastern tradition. and sometimes expands and engulfs elements of Western Armenian culture. Which is way less studied, documented, let alone posted online in internationally accessible places.
For another example. Iranian-Armenian clothing is well documented… in Iran. and in Persian… We have museums there that explain Armenian tradition throughout the centuries, and clothes that have been well maintained in Armenian villages and cities in Iran.
To my knowledge. This is definitely a modern rendition of traditional Armenian garments.
Usually an Armenian Taraz for women would cover the entire body. With ornaments and patterns on the chest and hips region. Here, the garment, is removed and directly put on the singer without the rest of the “traditional dress”
Imagine someone just left the middle part of the Taraz here, https://www.instagram.com/tarazdressesphotography/p/CVTqEBRvoB2/
Or the first pic here, https://armeniadiscovery.com/en/articles/armenian-national-clothes-taraz
As for her braids, yes those are traditional Armenian braids, out of style in modern Armenia. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS61C3Rx8/
The use of color red is also Armenian. I don’t know the explanation for that, other than most ethnic and religious groups had their “own colors” under the empires. Maybe someone else can explain.
But to give an idea of how much stuff is not really talked about here’s an example of old traditional clothings.
https://www.houshamadyan.org/mapottomanempire/vilayetofmamuratulazizharput/kaza-of-agn/local-characteristics/attire.html
>The customary attire of women consisted of the taghna (worn by maidens), a khasaba (worn by new brides), an overcoat, a belt or a Persian tspsi (a thick, coarse belt made of goat’s hide) around the waist, various fur-lined coats, birindjigs, shirts of linen and red cloth, and vodits-terlig (footwear). Djanigian mentions that the kalpak, chashgher, taghna, khasaba, and red shirts had fallen out of favor perhaps 40-50 years earlier, and that it had been a long time since he had encountered them
You can’t find any of these names if you google them in English online.