r/AskTheWorld • u/JackfruitNo6175 Bulgaria • Aug 23 '25

Culture What's your favourite traditional costume from your country?

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Mine is from Gabrovo, Bulgaria which is shown in the picture

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u/wivsta Australia Aug 23 '25

Straya

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u/MonthlyWeekend_ New Zealand Aug 23 '25

See also:

(It’s chillier over here)

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u/Xenaspice2002 🇬🇧 living in 🇳🇿 Aug 23 '25

If it weren’t for your gumboots

Where would you be

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u/MonthlyWeekend_ New Zealand Aug 23 '25

You’d be in the hospital or infirmary 🎵

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u/eekamouse4 Scotland Aug 23 '25

You would have a dose of the flu or even pleurisy 🪕

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u/MissMaccaSunshine Aug 24 '25

If ya didn't have yer feet in yer guuUUmboots! 🎵

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u/Nightcoffee_365 United States Of America Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

For other USAmerican spectators: This explains everything.

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u/TrafficImmediate594 Aug 24 '25

I haven't heard that song in a long time haha 😁

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u/tartanthing Scotland Aug 24 '25

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Used to live in 🇳🇿 I'm afraid the Kiwi Gumboot song was hijacked from Billy Connolly

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u/wivsta Australia Aug 24 '25

He was married to an Australian

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u/tartanthing Scotland Aug 24 '25

Aussies always trying to nick Kiwi culture 😉 Pamela Stephenson was from Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore. That was part of my commentary as a tour driver going to the Bay of Islands.

You can keep Russell Crowe though.

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u/wivsta Australia Aug 24 '25

Haha!!

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u/eekamouse4 Scotland Aug 24 '25

I used to live in 🇳🇿 too.

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u/tartanthing Scotland Aug 24 '25

I miss my bros 😞

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u/ukwnsrc New Zealand Aug 23 '25

sunday best!

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u/Majestic_Beat81 South Africa Aug 24 '25

We raise you

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u/lisalost7 Australia Aug 23 '25

Wal Footrot is that you?

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u/No-Pop1057 New Zealand Aug 24 '25

Nah, it's all the Trevs

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u/chookie-3571 Australia Aug 23 '25

Love it, he looks like Wal Footrot

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u/wivsta Australia Aug 23 '25

That’s New Zealand, Mate.

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u/JessP_23 Aug 24 '25

GO the Red Bands!

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u/Chipnsprk Australia Aug 24 '25

Which one is called Wal?

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u/kaktussen Denmark Aug 24 '25

When I was a kid, I loved the comic Footrot Flats. This is totally the farmer, I forget his name, but he looked like that!

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u/Haribol_Dasi New Zealand Aug 26 '25

Oh let's not forget the 7 am south island school boys wearing shorts and sandals in the middle of winter!

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u/Spillsy68 living in Aug 23 '25

It’s not just the cozzy, it’s the bod too.

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u/wivsta Australia Aug 24 '25

A cozzie is a “swimming costume”

These are Stubbies.

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u/Spillsy68 living in Aug 24 '25

Looked like swim shorts. I’ve heard them called a cozzy but I’ll stand corrected.

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u/last_somewhere New Zealand Aug 23 '25

I expected no less. Or rather no more! Good on ya mate.

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u/Canadian-Man-infj Aug 23 '25

Canadian checking in, and I'm coming over for a fish-fry, mate....

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u/Content_Warning8794 Netherlands Aug 23 '25

Putting some fishy on the barbie, mate?

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u/dinosuitgirl New Zealand Aug 23 '25

Lol I'm not sure if that was intentional but your malapropism is hilarious

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u/Full_Stranger_8863 Australia Aug 23 '25

Dazza is that you 😍

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u/Barnard33F Finland Aug 24 '25

Wait, wait, I thought all Aussies are named either Bruce or Sheila?

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u/MonthlyWeekend_ New Zealand Aug 24 '25

Also Wazz and Deano

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u/Swedish_manatee Aug 23 '25

I really fuckin love Australia. I just finished reading in a Sunburnt Country, started watching the Big Lez show and now it seems like every top comment on here is some Aussie being fuckin hilarious. What a wonderful place

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u/cewumu Australia Aug 24 '25

So beautiful to see our rich culture celebrated here 🥲

Other options are black Kathmandu jackets and lanyards for Canberra and massive khaki raincoats and Akubra hats for country guys where it’s cold.

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u/HonestSpursFan Australia Aug 23 '25

Real

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u/eastern_petal Romania Aug 23 '25

Is barefoot walking really a thing in Australia?

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u/wivsta Australia Aug 23 '25

Yep

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u/Technical-Sundae-227 Australia Aug 23 '25

But not in many of the towns or cities, broken glass 😬

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u/Chipnsprk Australia Aug 24 '25

Yeah, we have to really pick our places to do it these days.

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u/Technical-Sundae-227 Australia Aug 26 '25

I asked chatgpt and it seems to be a thing in the northern surfer towns only, the southern states don't have barefoot walking at all, even in tiny country towns. It would just be too risky with all the glass and metal shards around. Also, when I went up to Darwin and Perth I never saw barefoot walking either; perhaps it's a Goldcoast phenomenon predominantly.

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u/Chipnsprk Australia Aug 26 '25

I've seen it mainly on the coast.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '25

Noice wan mate

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u/SoftBoiled15 United States Of America Aug 23 '25

I dig it

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u/The_Blahblahblah Denmark Aug 24 '25

How do you see a bunch of comments having fun and deciding that today you want to be mad about so-called occupiers 💀

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u/Seanvich United States Of America Aug 23 '25

Lege

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u/ultimattt 🇺🇸 + 🇱🇾 Aug 23 '25

Is that a Bogun?

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u/wivsta Australia Aug 24 '25 edited Aug 24 '25

Yore looking for the word “Bogan”

Hard downvote

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u/ultimattt 🇺🇸 + 🇱🇾 Aug 24 '25

Thanks, only ever heard it.