This development has been preserved in national costumes worn today. W omen wear a tanu cloth cap, a tykkimyssy silk cap, a hornshaped cap or a shaped bonnet. G irls generally wear a red silk headband. In the western Finnish costume, aprons come in a range of fabrics of either one colour or decorated with vertical stripes or printed patterns. Though cloth is used sparingly in comparison with western Finland, Karelian costume is all the more lavishly decorated with colourful embroidery and traditional lacework.
Bodices come in a straight or loose cut, generally in a single colour, though often embroidered.
Karelian skirts are often tightly pleated all the way round, though not as full as those encountered in western Finland. Karelian aprons are decorated with a variety of horizontal stripes. Woman's costume, Muolaa Karelian costumes are lavishly decorated. Seen here in the winter version of the Muolaa costume, with smock, apron and coarse wool coat embroidered with woollen thread. The small, shaped veil is a standard accessory.