The clothing of the Bukovinian Ukrainian and Rumunian peasants, although individually extremely varied, nevertheless, in general, is the same throughout the land in both nationalities.
The women wear long shirt, that extend below the knee and are tied around the waist with a loomed belt of 10 to 15 cm. in width.Over this is worn the wraparound skirt (horbotka) tied down around the waist with numerous rounds of a loomed, brightly multicolored belt that is 4 to 5cm wide. The bottom corners of this wool skirt are brought up to the waist and tucked under the belt in order to facilitate walking and working. The head is wrapped with a loomed white head piece (rushnyk).
The shirt is outstanding article of clothing upon which the Bukovinian housewife shows her artistic talents with the needle and which displays sometimes an unusually rich ornamental beauty. From the cut and the execution of the embroidery, two types are distinguishable, which however, have one aspect in common - that their bottom section, which deteriorates the fastest, is always made of tougher, thicker material than the upper section.1. The personal, dress-up shirt, which is worn solely on Sundays and holidays to church, to dances, to family and other holiday festivities , is richly embroidered on the shoulders and sleeves from top to bottom, on the breast, on both sides of the front head opening slit, almost to the waist. Sometimes also, it is embroidered on the bottom hem with narrow embroidery and finished off with diagonal stitched lace.