In the nineties, in the eastern region of Hungary, various festivities and occasions were widely used by women to wear costumes. These events could include weddings, local balls, festivities, community meetings, village days, and sometimes Sunday Masses. What they had in common was that local women usually appeared in some colorful costumes. In the pictures below, I would like to show few of my mother’s 90’s dresses / costumes that she wore most of the time at these events.
My mom wore this dress mostly for official events.
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She got this dress from my father for their fifth wedding anniversary. In the 90’s she wore it a lot for local events.This dress has only been worn once by my mother, at her first primary school reunion.This dress was one of my mothers dearest present, which she got from her own mom, for her graduation. She wore it for exceptional events, like her brother’s wedding.This dress was mostly worn by her at university graduational ceremonies, but it has occured, that she put it on for high-school graduations. On sundays she generally went to church in these dresses.
My mom was wearing this dress for the funeral of close family members.This dress has an interesting story. My grandfather bought it for my mom before her wedding, unfortunately though he didn’t live to be there. My mom planned to wear it for the party after the ceremony, because of this though she didn’t put it on. She hasn’t wore this dress ever since.She wore this dress mostly for civil weddings. There was such an occasion almost every year in the 90’s. My mother was wearing this dress at the christening of both my brother and me. She got it from her mom, who also wore it at her and her sibling’s christening.
This one dress is exeptional, because she wasn’t wearing this in the 90’s. She bought it with the intention of wearing it at my wedding for the first time.This is my mom’s favorite juvenile outfit that she wore most often at local events. My mom has only one memory about this dress, which is that she was wearing it for my first carnival, where I got dressed up as a mummy, since I loved the movie, titled Mummy, as a child.
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