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Albania鈥檚 </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 191.97px;">traditional isolation from the rest of Europe gave rise to much originality in </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 221.11px;">dress and early foreign travellers were quite captivated by what they saw. In </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 250.25px;">the harsh northern mountains of the country, each tribe, indeed each valley and </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 279.39px;">settlement, had its own distinctive dress that was easily recognizable by the </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 308.52px;">whole population. Costumes revealed not only tribal and religious affiliation, </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 337.66px;">but for women in many cases also marital status. These traditional costumes </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 366.8px;">were in general use well into the 1930s, and in some regions of the country until </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 395.94px;">after the Second World War. Even in the first decades of the twenty-first </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 425.08px;">century, it is no rarity to see traditional costumes worn by Albanian women </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 454.22px;">daily, or at least on market day, in particular in the northern regions of </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 483.36px;">Shkodra, Mal毛sia e Madhe, Lezha and Mirdita and in some more isolated parts </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 512.49px;">of southern Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia. However, </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 541.63px;">globalization is swiftly taking its toll.</span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4410.05px;">In the first three decades of the twentieth century, the photographs made of </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4439.19px;">folk costumes were turned into postcards and put on sale, as in other countries. </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4468.33px;">The present collection of these early postcards was kindly made available from </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4497.46px;">the archives of the Centre for Albanian Studies in London. It should be noted </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4526.6px;">that southern Albanian costumes are underrepresented in this collection, not </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4555.74px;">because they are any less spectacular, but simply because the earliest </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4584.88px;">photographers and the earliest costume postcards happened to be from the </span> <span class="xr_tl Normaler_Text xr_s4" style="top: 4614.02px;">north of the country.</span> </div> <div class="xr_group"> <img class="xr_ap" src="index_htm_files/2730.jpg" alt="" title="" style="left:235px;top:488px;width:20px;height:14px;"/> </div> <div class="xr_group"> <div class="xr_noreset " style="position: absolute; left:235px;top:1015px;width:635px;height:3781px;">  <div id="vlightbox1"> <a class="vlightbox1" href="lightbox_files/vlb_images1/cas001.jpg" title=""><img src="lightbox_files/vlb_thumbnails1/cas001.jpg" 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