Life

These clothing items were an integral part of the common people’s dress code. The term trliš refers to work clothes for men made of rough and usually blue cloth, while traversa is the local term for an apron. Trliš were used exclusively for work purposes, but the more luxurious versions of a traversa also served other purposes. Today, worn-out sweatpants have replaced trliš, while traversas are rarely used in kitchens and never seen outside the house anymore. Childhood memories from long ago smell of the dried figs and candy our grandmothers used to pull out of the pockets of their traversas they never seemed to take off.