Go to the Ukrainian Language, Culture and Travel Page . Both men's and women's shirts were sewn from homespun and home-woven linen or hempen cloth, polotno . In most regions of Ukraine, men's shirts are worn over the trousers. Both men's and women's shirts have their opening down the center front. The opening edges of the women's shirts are minimally decorated with embroidery, while the men's shirt are more heavily embroidered along both openings, forming a unified design when the shirt is closed.
Skirts are of a wrap-around style and consist of panels.
Aprons are worn over the skirt. Generally, female costumes show greater variety and more elaborate ornamentation than male costumes. Unmarried women all over Ukraine wore their hair in one or two braids everyday. For work, young women covered their head with a kerchief. When not working, and on special occasions, maidens tied their hair back with a ribbon and inserted flowers into the ribbon on both sides of the head.