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. M arried women wear a headscarf, a sorokka headdress or linen cap.
Girls wear a shaped panted headband or a s pp li wreath-like band decorated with metal studs.
T he costume is often worn with a sleeved coat of a simple cut in linen or coarse wool. S ome of the more striking Karelian costumes have been reproduced in relatively accurate detail in recent years. N ational costumes date back over a century. They were originally inspired by National Romanticism, the Finnish nationalist movement and folk arts and crafts. There are over 400 different women's, men's and children's national costumes surviving today.