page_title: Catalans
section_title: Traditional clothes
hierarchical_section_title: Catalans / Culture and society / Traditional clothes
caption_attribution_description: English: catalan traditional dress
context_page_description: The Catalans are a Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia of Mediterranean and Pyrenean descent, having its roots in the Pyrenees mountains. The current official category of "Catalans" is that of the citizens of Catalonia, an autonomous community in Spain and the inhabitants of the Roussillon historical region in southern France, today the Pyrénées Orientales department, also called Northern Catalonia and Pays Catalan in French.
  Some authors also extend the word "Catalans" to include all the people from areas where the Catalan language is spoken, namely those from Andorra, Valencia, the Balearic islands, eastern Aragon, Roussillon, and the city of Alghero in Sardinia.
  The Catalan government regularly surveys its population regarding its "sentiment of belonging". As of July 2019, the results point out that 46.7% of the Catalans and other people living in Catalonia would like independence from Spain, 1.3% less than the year before.
context_section_description: The traditional dress (now practically only used in folkloric celebrations) included the barretina (a sort of woollen, long cap usually red or purple in colour) and the faixa (a sort of wide belt) among men, and ret (a fine net bag to contain hair) among women. The traditional footwear was the espardenya or espadrille.
caption: Catalan children wearing the traditional outfit, including the barretina.
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