The Czechs have a lovely fairy tale culture. Not just that everything is rosy in the lovely land of Czechs, but they actually love to watch fairy tales on TV. Every Christmas season the television is full of beautifully filmed fairy tales.
These stories can be familiar, like Cinderella, or Popelka as she's known in Czech. Or the stories can be unique, like the many tales involving "čerty" or little devils that reek havoc on unsuspecting humans.
There is an exhibition currently on display at Strahov Monastery entitled, "How they dressed the fairy tales." It is a collection of some of the most famous costumes of the Czech fairy tales. They detail on the costumes is intricate and fine. They colors are so bright and vivid, even though some of these dresses where used in the 1950s.
Go and enjoy the magic...
http://www.jakseoblekajipohadky.cz/
1 comment:
oooh...pretty. a few years ago when i went to that vatican exhibit, my favorite part was the pope's closet. all of the garments were so amazing.
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