Ahoj Česká republika! I’m currently creating a Czech character and I wanted some help from you guys 🙂

I haven’t figured a lot about the character, only that she’s a girl of 19 years from rural Czechia. The story itself is nothing too much, just a bunch of international teens forming a group mixed in with a lot of folklore and mythical beings (story takes place around the early 1900s).

I just want some help in naming her and figure out where in the country she would be from (maybe getting some help with which specifc Czech folkclothing she would wear), and other personal stuff like that 🙂

She’s a generally quiet girl, she doesn’t take up too much space, but she loosen up around friends easily. She’s from a small family with on sister, and she’s works a lot on her family’s farm. And her bestfriend is a random Norwegian boy.

Sorry if this is an annoying post, but think this is the best place to ask such weird questions 🙂

by uhh_ise

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  3. The puffy white sleeves and red-white combination points heavily towards Moravia.

    (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Moravian_national_costumes.jpg/800px-Moravian_national_costumes.jpg )

    Locals mostly wore “Standard 1900s clothing” for daily wear – the stuff you see on working class throughout Europe, as fashion is now kinda spread out – the common white blouses with skirt of random colour – with either a headscarf (headscarf usually meaning that she was a married woman – unmarried girls could show their hear, during special occasions they would wear flowers in their hair)
    on her head or if she was less conservative and more fashionable, it could be a small straw hat too.

    Folk clothing was usually for Sundays, special occasions and celebrations.
    but it could still affect the daily wear – with embroidery etc.

    The wealthier and middle class families would in many areas just have customised but otherwise typical city clothing for their daily wear (I found records of it from 1860s newspapers) Only the skirt hem would be higher and the shoes would usually be boots instead of something fashionable, as the roads weren’t paved (with exception of perhaps one main road) like in towns – thus being muddy

    If she is wearing a folk clothing, it is on the plainer side

    I would either think of areas around Kyjov:
    https://www.starepohledy.cz/tmp/books/_copyright_7_459318.jpg

    Hodonín
    https://cdn.aukro.cz/images/sk1619138173180/730×548/mutenice-kroje-320-sq14-98566878.jpeg

    Břeclav
    https://www.starepohledy.cz/tmp/books/_copyright_7_497070.jpg

  4. Daily wear wasn’t like this I think. Just plain white shirt, with blue or white skirt.

  8. She probs shouldn’t have her hair covered if she’s not married. Young girls wear their hear uncovered, maybe braided.
    Nice color palette!

  9. Don’t put a scarf on her head, if she is single. Only married women were supposed to wear it and cover their hair.

  10. Be sure to get inspired by a realism painter Joža Uprka who documented this.

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