Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to three ethnic "constituent peoples", Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats, all three explicitly mentioned in the constitution, none of them being considered a minority or immigrant. The costumes of Bosnian Serbs are divided into two groups, the Dinaric and Pannonian styles. The basic element of both women's and men's dress was a hemp or linen shirt in the form of a tunic with sleeves, abundantly decorated with embroidery done in yarn. The Jelek is a Waistcoat made from wool or velvet while women's jackets are lined with fur. The peony embroidery design often found on aprons, socks and elsewhere is colored bright red, symbolising the blood lost at the Battle of Kosovo.
Traditional Serbian female costume consists of Opanci, embroidered woolen socks that reached to the knees and Nazuvice. Skirts are very varied, of plaited or gathered and embroidered linen, with tkanice serving as a belt. An important part of the costume are aprons (Pregace) decorated with floral motifs. Scarves bordered with cords were worn as headdress. Girls also wear collars, or a string of gold coins around their throats, earrings, bracelets, and their caps were decorated with metal coins. The men wear in the winter Šubara, a fur hat in a conical or cylindrical shape, predominantly black, because of the black lamb/sheep fur (woolen).
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