Ukrainian dress

While chances are most of us have never set loafer in the Ukraine, fashion’s made certain the country has visited most of our Instagram feeds of late. That cute embroidered boho top teamed with cut-off denim on a bunch of celebs at Coachella this season? Based on the Ukrainian national blouse, called the vyshyvanka. Those cool...

Hello all, I have done several articles about Boiko Costume piecemeal, and today I would like to pull them all together in one article, to give an overview. The images above are of Boiko costumes which are from various different regions. Who are the Boikos? If you ask most Ukrainians, they will tell you that the Boiki live in the Carpathian mountains, east of the Lemki and west of the Hutsuls.This is true, as far as it goes. Boiko is a term which was originally applied to them by others…