Each culture is characterized by its own set of decorations. There is a unique kind of adornments peculiar to a particular cultural group or individual complex and there are multipurpose decorations that are present in every culture and without which, at large, it is impossible to imagine a woman. Universal adornments include earrings. This decoration is known all over the world and has many shapes. Ukrainian women in this regard were not exception and for this reason earrings had a significant value among the Ukrainian traditional clothes. The Ukrainian traditional jewelry is characterized by sufficiently large variety of earrings. The most conventional for Ukrainian women were earrings, which included elements of floral ornament, images of birds and earrings in the shape of the moon. Each type of earrings had its own colorful purely folk name, which, as a rule, comes from its shape. For example there existed earrings with such designations as mallows, mallows with butterfl...
Про історію в прикрасах. Популярно про красиве і важливе / History Chronicled through Jewelry: A Simple Look at Elegance and Importance