Účes Čičmany

When I went to the Ball in the Opera, I had a dress made with a reference to an embroidery on an apron worn in Telgárt. I was thinking what hairstyle I should have with the embroidered dress and my choice was clear. I will get two braids braided. Journalists wrote: “She wanted to be interesting.”, hair like “Ribana” and at last my hairstyle got a name from the journalists - unconventional. I wanted to show people that braids are the easiest and most traditional hairstyle a Slovak woman can have. And not only braided hair but many other variations of hairstyles that our ancestors combed day after day. That is why I decided to start this project, very close to my heart, so that everyone gets to know that, for example, to wear your hair loose is the most unconventional hairstyle, for a Slovak adult and married woman to wear. It was a fight to create these videos. Also because many of the traditional hairstyles disappeared because for decades women wear short hair and they fill their folk bonnets with ribbons and fillings. Or many, who still know how to do it, are aged grandmas and they have little energy and poorer vision. Others, even younger ones, are not willing to teach us and keep the knowledge to themselves and when we finally found people willing to teach us the hairstyle, we ended with fear of letting the folk bonnet out of hands. It is understandable, because the majority handles our heritage without respect. I am grateful to everyone willing to mediate the knowledge about our traditional hairstyles and lend us the beautiful traditional folk bonnets. Because today, we’re on the edge of extinction and loss of this seemingly unimportant information such as a traditional Slovak female hairstyle. Ladies and gentlemen, look at what hairstyles married women combed every day in our villages. Hair was a significant part of a folk costume, it was the luxury of a woman and it wouldn’t happen that a married woman would leave her home without her hair styled and a headcover - either a bonnet or a scarf. Idea: Petra Toth Realisation of the original hairstyle: Lenka Špalková DNJ Beauty Music: Andrea Bučko, Dominika Kavaschová: Morena - Jedna druhej riekla Remix: Jani Ürögi Production and postproduction of the video: Be On Mind