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Timeline

Wardrobe

Working clothes and elite or city clothes, drawn as pairs. Imagined plates, not reconstructions from a single grave or museum case. The dated stops live on the timeline.

Imagined pair: a man in a short undyed tunic, belt pouch, and wrapped legs beside a man in an embroidered coat, dark cloak, and red cap
Imagined art — working and elite dress (schematic, not a museum reconstruction).

Dacia and the early centuries: a short tunic and wrapped legs for work, a longer coat and cloak for rank. On the timeline.

Imagined pair: a woman in a white embroidered ia, dark apron, and head cloth beside a man in a long patterned caftan and fur hat
Imagined art — working and elite dress (schematic, not a museum reconstruction).

The principalities: the ia — the embroidered blouse named on crafts — beside a boyar caftan. On the timeline.

Imagined pair: a village man in an embroidered shirt, black vest, and wrapped calves beside a woman in a fitted mauve nineteenth-century gown
Imagined art — working and elite dress (schematic, not a museum reconstruction).

The 1859 union and the kingdom years: an embroidered village shirt beside a city gown. On the timeline.

Imagined pair: a man in a work shirt, vest, sash, and flat cap beside a woman in a long embroidered coat, cloche hat, gloves, and a small bag
Imagined art — working and elite dress (schematic, not a museum reconstruction).

After 1918, in the interwar kingdom: workshop vest and cap beside a tailored city coat. On the timeline.

Imagined pair: a woman in a plain blue dress, patterned headscarf, and a woven towel beside a man in a dark three-piece suit
Imagined art — working and elite dress (schematic, not a museum reconstruction).

The communist decades: a plain work dress and household cloth beside a dark suit. On the timeline.

Imagined pair: a man in a hooded jacket and jeans beside a woman in an embroidered ia, jeans, woven scarf, and boots
Imagined art — working and elite dress (schematic, not a museum reconstruction).

The present: everyday jacket and jeans beside an ia worn with modern trousers — the same blouse as on crafts. On the timeline.