Elegant old Ladies

A while back I was lucky enough visit Maramures in Romania. One of the most beautiful and best preserved traditional rural environments in Europe…an almost medieval way of life that has changed little in a 100 years. As well as their fantastic traditional wooden buildings, the old people at least, still wear their traditional clothing and like much folk costume it is quite uniform, in that the pieces are similar, only with personal or regional eccentricities…..here are some of my favourite old ladies.