School: St Mary's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 520
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- (continued from previous page)for a wedding of a friend sixty five years ago She wore elastic sides. Boots were then coming into fashion. Wooden clogs _ she said were the first shoes she wore, and these were made by her Uncle.
She wore a large bonnet, which covered the whole back of her head. There were two large feathers in the top of it. She showed us a hoop she wore under a long skirt. This skirt was very long behind, and when she wanted to get along more easily she caught up the back with a pair of small brass tongs which she showed us. When the tongs caught the skirt it could be raised to the proper height from from the ground by means of a long cord fastened to a ring in the top of the tongs and held by the hand, or fastened in front A ring kept the tongs fastened in the skirt a bustle placed at the small of the back lifted up the skirt to its desired position.
She wore a dolman which differed from a cape in that the arms were shaped in it.
She wore under the dolman a polka resembling what is called a cardigan(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Donaghey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Philip Donaghey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballymagan Upper and Lower and Clonblosk, Co. Donegal
