TITLE:
A Field Study of Gipsy Clothes in Some Governorates of Egypt
AUTHORS:
Abeer Ebraheem El-Dsoky Mohmed Shalaby
KEYWORDS:
Gypsies of Egypt, Roma Groups, Gypsy Clothing, Gypsy Heritage
JOURNAL NAME:
Art and Design Review,
Vol.11 No.4,
November
28,
2023
ABSTRACT: “Gipsies” are people spread across all continents in the form of closed
communities themselves. Their conditions are
ambiguous; they adhere to their own customs and are associated with one
secret cord of lifestyles, behaviours, creativity, and adoration. The
arts—colouring in the most important contexts of
life and, above all, costumes in every environment in which they resolve—consider this a compulsory type of
compatibility and social adaptation. They are the tribes of Pal Huya. Tu
unite them, the nationalism of their congregation, and the homeland they dream
of sovereignty over or returning to you. I believed that all the land of their
homeland and that hanging out their curse, they had nothing but their habits
and traditions. On the ground, we can talk about the Roma’s races and
identities. Their identity is one of the next,
the strangers. These Roma knocked on the doors of the world; they raised
great surprise; theories swirled about their origins; and over the centuries,
they succeeded in maintaining a distinctive identity and showing superior
adaptability and survival. Naturally, every Roma inhabitant sees they are
distinct and different groups; they belong to a particular culture in the world
because they have not adopted a particular culture, and the study shows
historical Roma people are bearers of the culture of other peoples, whether the Roma constitutes their own culture or the other, which is reflected
in their clothes and accessories, and that’s what you’ll take
up in this study. In light of this, we suspect that Roma fashion has been
influenced by the tolerance and alphabet of many of the people, it
passed through during its migration, which is
explained by the similarity in certain elements and the construction of
clothing between a particular Roma community
and a particular people. Non-gipsy, examples
of this are Roma women’s clothes in Egypt, where Roma women’s costumes usually contain images of the
environment in which they arise and the details of the life in which they live.
To the same extent, we can see the link between the nature of women’s lives in
their society and the geographical conditions,
the cutting of the uniform, its shape, its construction, and the materials made of it. The study aims to study the nature of the Roma community in Egypt in general, the governorates of Orientale
and EL-Wasta-Beni Suef in particular,
and the impact of the social environment on the community of Roma through the study and analysis of their own
women’s costumes. This aim has been achieved through field
visits and interviews conducted to collect information on Egyptian Roma
costumes, traditions, and customs. Data was analysed, and associations and
bodies involved in monument and heritage collection were visited.