"Harvest woman's vestment"
It's
the vestment worn by the peasant women from Carreço on Sundays when
they had to do with their fiancés to the plain to cut grass to feed
the cattle. It's more modest than the vestment known as the "peasant
woman's vestment". The red woollen apron is quite simple. It has black
and green stripes. They wear large brims hats. The neck cloth, in green or
orange shades, is adjusted on the chest. The shirt is made of thick linen
and has a simple white embroidery. The vest has a strip of plain common cotton
cloth with floral themes. The skirt has a black and white doubling. Women
wear their hair tied up at the top of their heads. The hair is placed inside
a hair net and it is held on the sides by hair pins. They wear wooden shoes
with no socks. When they are mourning for
someone the basic colours of this vestment change into blue, purple, green
and black.
