Traditional Sicilian Clothes Traditional Sicilian clothes | Page 3

The upper part is composed of a black velvet gilet edged with a
floral trimmings to decorate and finish the bodice, tight and tied
by a thread of shiny red satin mouse tail; the white shirt provided
with St. Gallen lace in the choker and in the cuffs with a red
ribbon intertwined with it.
The cape in particular slipped on every occasion (and often it was
a clothing that lasted a lifetime). With the cape, in every season,
the women came out of the house, went to the country and to
the village.
When they went to church, to some visits or non-ordinary
procession, they wore the faddigghia, a black silk surcoat, which
drops abundantly down to the foot and, according to the places,
a cloak lined with the cape, but without hem, of cloth or,
according to the class, of black silk (cativellu or armuscinu) which
covers the head and surrounds the whole person, falling softly
below the knees.