How common is it for women to still dress like this in your countries?

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ichbinsophia@reddit

Warning: They force-feed you and don't believe you're not hungry.

Warning: Whose son/daughter are you?

Warning: I will marry you to my son.

Oh my turkish aunties

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JaySmooth_@reddit

This is more like Ballan in general. So many different cultures, yet so similar

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gperg@reddit

Same in Greece. If you say you are not hungry, then this means that you are actually hungry but you are too shy to admit it, so a plate of food will appear in front of you.

Then after you eat the food, just to stop the psychological pressure and not to be rude since they already served it to you, they tell you that they were right and indeed you were hungry so they bring you more food. After that you are forced to eat fruit. Now it has been proven beyond doubt that when you say you are not hungry you are lying and at the next visit the cycle continues.

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toofabforfanghorn@reddit

The trick is to leave a little bit on the plate, then they force you to eat the last bite, then they know you’ve eaten

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DotEither8773@reddit

“I can’t wash the plate before you eat everything!”

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wisdomHungry@reddit

100%. So accurate and funny! Same in romania!

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PaperSweet9983@reddit

Exactly

And now with phones we have a bunus one

" Can you fix my phone for me-"

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ichbinsophia@reddit

And that phone will never be a touchscreen phone. Nokia's ancient phone. It has a snake game inside. They think the phone is broken because the screen brightness has decreased.

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Fuzzy_Alg@reddit

We should encourage them to use smartphone. My grandmother is medically blind (can see very little) adapted using it and now so much happy. She objected a lot at first, but now she uses it much more comfortably. She sends messages from WhatsApp with a voice keyboard, voice messages and watches videos on youtube. Don't listen to them saying they can't use it, they learn over time.

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PaperSweet9983@reddit

YESS and when you fix it " ah want smart kids you are" and it's just you two clicks fix xd

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ichbinsophia@reddit

Puauauhwhshss

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x6060x@reddit

Exactly the same in Bulgaria

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ichbinsophia@reddit

bangaranga bangaranga

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psychedelicferrets@reddit

This is truly the neighborhood Teyze uniform

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

Warning: Whose son/daughter are you?

I didn't expect to also share this with Turkey!

Do you also have the joke about the new york guy who visits a village and some old woman asks him "Whose son are you?". lol!

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8thmiracle@reddit

Τίνος είσαι 'συ;

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

A γεια σου! δεν το περιμενα να το λενε κι αυτό οι Τουρκοι! Ελεος δηλαδη! :)

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kikiriki_miki@reddit

The joke is with a Nigerian guy :)))

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

lol!

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ichbinsophia@reddit

We have more in common than we think. We lived on the same land for years and are neighbors now. Komşu!

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tenhoursdude@reddit

Are you sure you're not romanian?

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dkmegg22@reddit

Seriously bro.

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i_spill_nonsense@reddit

Romanian grannies are the exact same. Ngl, i expected you to be a romanian given how accurate you were with every single warning.

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SpaceJackRabbit@reddit

Haven't been to Romania in 30 years but I remember old ladies looking exactly like this at the time.

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i_spill_nonsense@reddit

Some still do. But, well, that generation is dying out.

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HM202256@reddit

lol. Yep. An elderly gentleman saw my daughter once and he was ready to set date for wedding with his grandson!!!

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FortisPatria@reddit

marry you to my son/daughter😩

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ichbinsophia@reddit

Yanlış mı yazmisimmm

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FortisPatria@reddit

yok hayır sadece erkeği darladıkları versiyonu da var 🥀

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FthisFthatFall@reddit

"Bir tanış belki hoşlanırsın. " versiyon da var.

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ichbinsophia@reddit

Anladimmm

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FthisFthatFall@reddit

Yok be. Bekarken millet beni evlendirmek için seferber olmuştu. Halam, 2 ayrı yengem, nenem o da yetmedi iş yerinde yine göçmen abla vardı Belçika da yaşayan yeğeni ile bile evlendirme niyetine girdi. Kız TR ye gelmeyince tanışmak nasip olmadı.

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

Women under 75 not so common, women that live in villages that are over 75 is more common

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Self-Bitter@reddit

I would argue that headscarves are now almost extinct for ladies below 75 to 80 and rare even for the most elderly (exclusively in rural areas). Also the open colored headscarves have always been uncommon, women often used to cover their heads with black scarves to present an everlasting grief for a close relative's loss.

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

True, ive only seen headscarves being worn by younger women in closeted conservative villages

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gorat@reddit

Really? where? I think I haven't seen a headscarf for at least 10 years now anywhere. Not counting 'grandma walking in the middle of summer heat' style.

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

Update! I saw an old lady dressed exactly like the picture in Athens weirdly enough! That has been a one time thing tho lmao, just thought it was funny that I happened to see her after this thread

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

Church sometimes (but i dont go that often) and also some villages in crete.

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gorat@reddit

OK i was going to say mountainous Crete ie the land that time forgot. Not really in many other places in Greece

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dsilva_Viz@reddit

Can it be said that Crete is Greece's most conservative place?

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gorat@reddit

I would say that Crete is greece's most 'backwards' place - specifically the Cretan mountain communities. That said they are not exactly conservative in the 'vote for right wing parties' sense, more in the 'it feels like it's 1960 here' and 'we love guns and getting drunk and I'd rather shoot someone than call the cops' sense.

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

True. We try to become more like central europe each day (always failing of course lmao)

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

The gold tooth LMAOOOO

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

I do think it is a bit sad how it’s dying out because many of the women who did dress this way were resilient

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skyduster88@reddit

were resilient

I mean, that doesn't really mean anything. It verges on Magical Negroizing Southern or Eastern europeans, and reinforces this false idea that we're supposed to be culturally static until some sort of recent corruption, while Northwest Europeans are celebrated for culturally evolving.

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NoTackle718@reddit

These women were expected to wear black from head to toe for their rest of their lives if a child or other close relative died...nothing resilient about that. It could be argued that it signalled to the community if someone needed more care (be careful with me, I am recently widowed etc), but in general it was and is another way to control what women could wear. I live in a village in the Greek countryside where the older women still wear these, although more of them have stopped now.

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

I mean, covering yourself up comes from a conservative viewpoint. While its sad that this classic balkan picture of old ladies with headscarves is slowly dying, i think its for the best in a way. Will miss the home feeling it gave me tho

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gorat@reddit

I mean, the women that are now 50-60 were born in the 1970s, I wouldn't consider it normal for them to wear Ottoman remnants. (I know head scarf is not only muslim, but it steyed strong in ottoman lands while it dissapeared 200 years ago in hapsburg lands and beyond)

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Self-Bitter@reddit

Well it was a dressing code widespread in many areas outside of any Muslim influence but you are correct that women now in their 70s to 80s were girls during during the "revolution" at the 60s and 70s, it would have been very odd to adopt that style

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Self-Bitter@reddit

You present it as if it is an unfortunate mimic thing......

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Spare-Advance-3334@reddit

Headscarves made a sort of comeback in Czechia this winter. Maybe because of all the Ukrainian ladies here. I see them as very seasonal. My great grandma died at 96 and she stopped using headscarves once she stopped going outside in the winter. In Hungary, although it was in a village, I saw women under 60 wear them in the summer for garden work or for canning, because you ideally want something to prevent your long sweaty hair from getting into your eyes.

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8thmiracle@reddit

It's a shame in a way that this will go away. I am reminded of my beloved grandmother now. Long gone but still lives in my memory

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736384826@reddit

The women in the picture are actually in their 40s

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

No! No one is like that. My mother is currently 86 and no woman in her age dress like that in my village.

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

In mine some do tho

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

How old?

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

80somthing

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

I doubt that she dresses like her mother. :\

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

Idk man, you know how conservative somw cretan villages can be

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

Last time I visited crete I haven't any woman in my mother's age dressed like that.

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dontneedit000@reddit

A girl watching Heated Rivalry... we could be like this together

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RD4316@reddit

Exactly the same in Albania. Or if some family member died, they would have the black mantel.

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skyduster88@reddit

women that live in villages that are over 75 is more common

It's almost completely dead.

Also, those heavy clothes, long skirts, were never a thing in Greece. Just the babushka headscarf, but that's dead now.

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Penya23@reddit

WHERE???

I haven't seen anyone wearing a mantili since I was a kid.

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Hot_Yogurtcloset4360@reddit

Crete!

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wollihd@reddit

Germany until 1980s, maybe beginning 90s, only older woman, rural, headscarf rare, mostly for work

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

Yeah seemingly more common in old times this is a photo of German immigrants in the US in the 1900s

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ThanksHorror4129@reddit

after 60 you either dress like soviet babushka or like Meryl Streep in devil wears Prada

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

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gravedigga1313@reddit

there’s no inbetween!

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BellaFromSwitzerland@reddit

Given you’re from Italy, you can claim the highest concentration of chic 60+ ladies on planet earth. I want to be like them when I grow up

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ackermantrades@reddit

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

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Starlight_saphire9@reddit

I am from northern area of Croatia and my late grandma and all other women from my village who were born in 30s dressed exactly like this. They even had a special headscarfs for church, everyday and when going in town to the doctors. Nowdays, I rarely see them dressed like that. Only a few of those who are still alive and are over 85 dress like that. 10 years ago this was everyone's synonime for a grandmother but now, not anymore.

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Slow-Hawk4652@reddit

i saw some grandmoms like this in villages in the Rhodope mountains.

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Additional-Screen573@reddit

I see this in the Republic of Kosova often. I think of all they have been through and wish I could do more to make their lives easier… but very self sufficient.

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Ashamed_Shoulder1399@reddit

Very common.

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aurokuror@reddit

In Slovenia I last saw ladies like these in Church in my youth (late 80s, early 90s). Now you don't see them anymore. I miss those times and those people.

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Moldorancea@reddit

In rural areas it is still common, especially for older ladies, but it is losing ground even in their case. I live in a rural area and you can now see ladies in their 70s or 80s who prefer a more modern outfit without a scarf on their head.

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

I do think it’s a bit sad that’s it dying out women who dressed like this were very resilient in the old days

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Fine_Loquat6580@reddit

r/ShitAmericansSay

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anananananana@reddit

It was the steel headscarf

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floare_salbatica@reddit

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Sammatr@reddit

I don’t think that had anything to do with their clothing.

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ImamTrump@reddit

Women that age lose lots of hair and are near bald.

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RoughReverence@reddit

lmfao this is just not true

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Fragrant-Field-2017@reddit

This are not some old ladies. This is the local CIA group!!

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Silly_Goose468@reddit

My grandma is the 2nd one from the right so...

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Auksee_@reddit

I am from Lithuania 🇱🇹 and there are many that still dress like that, mostly older generations.

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Extreme-Fall-9963@reddit

Not in Serbia anymore.

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Elyay@reddit

They do you just don't know any

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Extreme-Fall-9963@reddit

Maybe 🤔But in my mum and dad’s village it’s pretty much extinct.

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Odd-Future1037@reddit

Very common sight in rural areas still.

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Meow-meow13_@reddit

my neighbour haha

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Sabeneben@reddit

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Sabeneben@reddit

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LiderNaMnenie@reddit

They are so sexy

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Successful-Biggy@reddit

I literally have seen my grandma and her friends in pic.

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kikiriki_miki@reddit

Sorry, that's my Romanian grandma and her neighbours :)

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Successful-Biggy@reddit

I think my grandma and your grandma are neighbours lol

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CanadianControlsTech@reddit

That's really cute

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Zoshi2200@reddit

Yo my aunties literally dress like the woman of the left. Saggy chest and all.

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Elias_Sideris@reddit

I'd say relatively rare. Just some of the grandmas in small villages.

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Individual-Cycle-735@reddit

Turkish surveillance cameras

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manu_facere@reddit

My grandma was born in *41. And she dressed this way up until she died

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Guilty_Yesterday5438@reddit

Moja je 1940. i nosi se ovako i dan danas. Istočna Bosna

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neakakdastane@reddit

Damn bro this my nana throwing the gang sign!

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Haldenbach@reddit

In Croatia you still see it, but mostly it's 80+ women. My grandma, born in 1931 dressed like that until she died. No one in my mom's generation (she is 70) dresses like this anymore.

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Strange-Title-6337@reddit

Have no idea but the girl that you dating is probably a prostitute

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UnDeadPuff@reddit

Romanian countryside has plenty of these gossip machines, dressed similarly.

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Additional-Penalty97@reddit

Yes they are the CCTV before it was a thing

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ichbinsophia@reddit

Gossip machines Puaakkasususudjjsjd. It's really like that.

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FillFit3212@reddit

I mean… dudes, this is the standard baba in the balkans:))))

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Puzzleheaded-Army101@reddit

I was just discussing this with my husband a few days ago 😄 Both my grandmas were like this in Hungary and in Transylvania. My aunt lives in a Transylvanian village, she’s close to 70 and doesn’t dress like this. My mother-in-law lives in a Hungarian village, my mom lives in Budapest, both of them are in their mid 60s and they don’t dress like this either. I’d say it’s definitely not common anymore.

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KaleidoscopeFar8190@reddit

Very common in rural areas and unfortunately I do hate it.

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bebilov@reddit

I’d say common if you’re an old lady /grandma living in rural areas. Not so common if you’re under 70/80 or living in the city. Especially the head covering isn’t very common anymore. For example my great grandma used to dress similar to this. My grandma doesn’t use a head covering and dresses a bit more modern .

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kalac77@reddit

Very old women in some god forbidden villages, or old parts of towns. Bosnia.

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venusinfurstattoo@reddit

Super common in Turkey

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DifficultWill4@reddit

My grandma lives in countryside Slovenia and she always wears firtuh. She also only wears pants (like the ones in the pic). On that note, it took my mum and aunt quite some time for her to convince her to wear pants, before that she only wore skirts. Now she refuses to wear skirts even to formal events

As for head scarfs, she only wears it when it’s windy outside, though she also has regular knit caps

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Dry_Razzmatazz69@reddit

Very. Literally on every street even in major cities. Not on the main boulevards because they hate the car traffic but wherever you have lower density housing you will find some old school babas hanging out

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lellyjoy@reddit

In the rural area it's pretty common.

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ImXenia85@reddit

YES.

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QuinnLoveborneAuthor@reddit

Muslims dress similar to this in the UK.

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VoidBG@reddit

this is what we call "the old facebook council"

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Desperate_Plan7451@reddit

Not that uncommon in Armenia

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latin220@reddit

My grandma before she passed away she was 103.

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No-Championship-4632@reddit

In rural regions, but getting rare even there.

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Dull_Cucumber_3908@reddit

My grandma who died in the 80s was dressing like this. My mother who is currently 86 years old doesn't dress like that neither any other woman in her age.

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LorettaDiPalio@reddit

Not existing in Greece

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Substantial-Cat2896@reddit

Old sweden, like 1800 early 1900 this was normal, now its super rare

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Immediate_Lobster421@reddit

Decently common in Moldova, especially in rural areas

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TavoMamosVaikinas@reddit

Not balkan at all but recently here in Lithuania I noticed enough young women (int their 20s & 30s) adopting elements from this look, especially the head scarfs when protecting from cold rather than using caps or hoods.

Maybe it's a gradual thing that you adopt as the time goes? But I doubt that it's not a balkan thing right now either

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

It’s good to see that it’s still somewhat embraced there by the younger generations I’m not sure if it still is much in Latvia and Estonia

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devoker35@reddit

70+ balkan turk granny items

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Friendly-Advantage79@reddit

My grandmother was like this. She died in 2012. It's still the 'granny outfit ' where I live. Only usually more dark gray/black. Not this colourful.

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Totobanzai@reddit

My baba complains that America does not have the clothes shoes she likes. She wants the same clothes pictured here basically.

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Stverghame@reddit

It became extremely rare compared to like 20 years ago

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determine96@reddit

Yeah, most of them who used to dress like this "papsaa" and we say in my town. (died)

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terra_filius@reddit

wtf is papsaa

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determine96@reddit

Умряха.

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RadioSupply@reddit

Now and again. I will relish the day I turn 65 and put on my headscarf.

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Substantial-One1934@reddit

In most of our villages old woman still dress like this

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Zajebann@reddit

Looks like a pic from 90's Bosnia. My grandma dressed jist like that.

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atchibulle@reddit

Mostly grandma

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mahboilucas@reddit

Rural Poland. Like, houses not soviet blocks.

My family is from Lubelskie and Podlaskie and I can occasionally see one around the soviet blocks too but it's not super common.

The modern-er the urban planning is in that area, the less headscarves and wrinkles and the more headscarves and iPhones.

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Oberfilosofem@reddit

in Türkiye most of villagers still like that

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ungovernable1984@reddit

Most are called teyze

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Oberfilosofem@reddit

We say kade in my village Like Ayşe kade

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Emotional_Gap2177@reddit

Pretty common in Romania, countryside. That's my grandma's signature outfit still 😂

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SunnyTheMasterSwitch@reddit

Turkish village grandmas if any

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ungovernable1984@reddit

Like Gagauz Bulgarians?

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SunnyTheMasterSwitch@reddit

I don't know any Gagauz, Im basing it off of my late granny who lived in a village all her life

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KamavTeChorav@reddit

Just in the villages

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Mi55ion_po55ible@reddit

Romanian ladies in countryside

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koxxlc@reddit

From Slovenia, can remember them from my young age, they have been slowly disappearing since 90's.

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WantOwnYou@reddit

This generation is at its end here in Bulgaria. Those are currently women born around 1930-40 living in the periphery. A remnant from pre and pist World war 2 agricultural societies. My grand grand ma is still alive and looks exactly like this.

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dwartbg9@reddit

Yeah, this is getting rarer and rarer in Bulgaria. But it makes sense overall, considering today a 70 year old grandma would be born in 1956, and was still young and in her 30s when CC Catch and Modern Talking were in the nightclubs hahah

Time flies and these older generations are disappearing. The ones that would dress like that are probably now in their late 80s - 90s.

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Bubatom@reddit

These look like my great grandma and her sisters, they are all in their 90s 😄

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ChildOfTheSane@reddit

Yes

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Bubatom@reddit

These look like my great grandma and her sisters, they are all in their 90s 😄

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lunrob@reddit

It died out in the eighties/early nineties when my grandmothers’ generation stopped working on their farms. 🇸🇪

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Fair-Impress2078@reddit

In croatia not anymore

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Kooky_Appeal_6554@reddit

My Godness....good Man...this is a very old picture...the old grandmas nearly passed away...and the after 1940. 50s, 60s, 70s, born Grannys didnt wear this dress anymore.

LOL...

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tatariko@reddit

The minibus I'm currently in has at least 4 of these ladies :D

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StepInevitable6307@reddit (OP)

Nice!

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4nadolu@reddit

Almost all of grandmothers dress like this

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mariii95@reddit

It's less common nowadays. Only very old women from villages wear it. My grandma wears one, she used to wear colorful headscarfes, but since she became a widow, she only wears black (she's in her 90s, I think).

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delerium1state@reddit

Unfortunately endangered species

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Bitter-Tadpole6047@reddit

sir we are hite sir we are ecular

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Penya23@reddit

In Greece, I haven't seen a headscarf since I was a kid.

But this pic is my childhood at the village when I visited Greece in the summers lol

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Adept-One-4632@reddit

I can still spot some old ladies wearing veils but its rare

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GlitteringLocality@reddit

This is my great grandmother.

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weldo420@reddit

I feel Safe around them

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HM202256@reddit

These are my aunties in Turkey. My very old aunties …. lol. Villagers and such.

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loco_mixer@reddit

its gone. grandmas all over the place are now completely different

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Ultimate_Warrior_69@reddit

Baba in villages yes

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ab3lla@reddit

old women living in the village yes. i don’t really see them in cities

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aaa-fff@reddit

My grandma put the scarf on her head when she got married, and after that you could never see her without it. It was a custom in that area for all married women to cover their heads

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WeeklyDelivery2000@reddit

Very common in small villages

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PeaceTo0l@reddit

All of them look like baba yaga.

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determine96@reddit

Hah, yes.

The one in yellow scarf actually does lol

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euxenios-svartahaf@reddit

In Turkey it's very common. For example in my villages from both sides of lineage, old grandpas wear these, and it's very common for newly married women to wear these temporarily or permanently.

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