sleeved midriff blouse over a sleeveless shirt. Northern Estonian maidens adorned their heads with chaplets. These were bands made either from cardboard or wood shavings, covered with coloured silk or woollen cloth and decorated with spangles and tinsel. The girls wore multicoloured silk ribbons at the nape. West Estonia This region shows similar features to the north and south. Sleeves were worn only on Kihnu island, in other areas white shirts were covered by jackets and waistcoats, shawls were thrown on the shoulders; skirts were striped and pleated. After the middle of the 19th century, women in Estonia, mainly in the western regions, also began to wear checked skirts. Men suits were similar to the North Estonian ones, in southern areas the colour was natural brown, in contrast to the northern indigo. The islands Traditional dress varied in this region in each island, on Saaremaa in every parish. There were many similarities with Swedish costumes.
point of rococo style. The stiffness of the earlier years had been abandoned, and the extravagances of the seventies and the neo-classical negligence of the nineties were alike unthought of. The most typical characteristics of the century were at their most charming stage. The wig was neat and becoming. The three-cornered hat was of medium size - it had been ridiculously large in Marlborough's time, and became ridiculously small in 1790; coats and waistcoats were both dignified and graceful, the cut was good and the embroidery elegant. There was a tasteful moderation in the use of lace. Women's dress was marked by a peculiarly charming form of the side panier, and was made of bright stuffs not too rich and heavy, for one result of the large panier had been to lead to the introduction of lighter and more flexible materials for dresses. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries very heavy
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