Stapar, Bačka

At festive occasions, young men used to wear shirts with richly embroidered bosom or with "formets", which were put on the shirt. Formets are individual pieces of silk or cotton linen of rectangular shape, whose upper narrower side on the neck was cut in semi-circle. They were mostly decorated with embroidery in the form of floral ornaments, wines or twigs. The ones that stood out were embroidered with gold threads in a special technique of full needlework.

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