Trajos

I wear Domingueiro of the woman:

Blouse of garrida, embroidered color little in the collar, fists and some embroiderings in the chest, borders for is of the skirt, that is of dark or very black color, for the cinnamon of the leg. Apron squared or rounded off and embroidering by hand, this in clear colors, as white, green clearly or yellow, white stocking embroidered and black shoe or chestnut.

In the head, handkerchief of cachoné or Chinese, tied behind, leaving the face short, as well as the tips of the ears, for thus revealing the earrings of oiro. Also the hair was used without handkerchief in the head, tying itself behind, in the nape of the neck, “carrapito”.

I wear Domingueiro of the man:

Clear white or blue shirt, with peitilho and collar of “Priest”, black or chestnut pants, with fast planer and black shoe.

Black black vest, barrete or hat of right border, and black brace with small fallen tip of the left side.

I wear the Moiral of toiros (Campino of work):

He was identical to the one of the other moirais, being the fabric of the pants and vest in cotim, and the shirt in striped fabric. All rolled up to the waist used red brace, without leaving tip for is, barrete green with carapinha red, and in some cases, it used fund shoes chestnuts instead of thick boots. In any of the cases, it always used spurs to mount the horse.

It used alforges to the shoulder, where it carried merenda to eat during the arduous day of chore with the toiros.

During the Winter, agasalho dressed a jacket of cotim for its, seen to have to leave very early for the field. As work instrument, it used the pole of campinar, to touch the toiros.

I wear the Abegão (person that directed the agricultural house, below of the master):

He was identical to I wear it domingueiro the man, but it used jacket, and in the black shoes of fund, spurs to mount the horse.

I wear the Moiral of the oxen or the mares:

Dark pants of cotim cinereous or blue, with a small planer that seated in the thick boot of fund, tied with atacadores of the same fund that they paved. The vest was of the same fabric of the pants, the shirt was of striped with peitilho and collar of “black Priest”, barrete and black brace, that a small tip of the left side falls. They used alforges hung in the left shoulder, where they carried foods and they still used the cajado one, as instrument of work to touch the cattle.

These people, during the Winter, brought obtain the “ribatejana blanket” or “lobeira” blanket, that she served to agasalharem itself of rain and the cold.

I wear work:

Also the men who worked the fields, such as the rice dealer, the workers that guided the oxen to cultivate or to gradar agricultural lands, or to make some transports in cars pulled for oxen, used identical trajos to the described one previously, only that these used the pants rolled up until almost to the knee, and underneath, ortelho used ones ceroulas of ganga until the o, where they were tied with one atilho made of the same cloth, walking bare-footed and others with tainocas or clogs.

These same workers made the taken off ones of cork oak in the hot months of Summer, being known by “corticeiros” or “tiradores of cork oak”, but also they used here the same I wear.

I wear the Campino of gala:

White shirt, of popeline, with collar of “Priest”, as they called to it, with peitilho round and buttoned only until the inferior extreme o of peitilho. Blue or black shimstock in “sarjão”, until little below of the knee, decorated with buttons chromed in anca and next to the knee, with white stocking embroidered by hand until the o knee and black shoe with visor turned for are, to cover the atacadores. Vest of baieta red, buttoned with chromed buttons, in the coasts an embroidering the done black color by hand, with drawing the taste. Well pressed red brace to the waist, without tips for is, and in the red head, barrete green with carapinha. Jacket of the color and the same fabric of the shimstock, also decorated with chromed buttons, this will be able to be used dressed or to the shoulder, as the station of the year, hot or cold.

It used spurs in the shoes, and to the chest of the left side of the vest, the iron of the agricultural house the one that belonged, and still used as work utensil, the campino pole.

I wear the Peasant:

The woman peasant used blouse of popeline, almost always of alive colors, such as green, color of rose, yellow, blue, and with golas rounded off and long sleeves or the three rooms, using still in the arms, “manguitos” in ganga or cotim, to protect the arms of the spikes or rough leves of the cereals.

They used chita skirt, that was rolled up for top, together with the apron, that could be normal or of chest with handles, calling itself it to this “I roll up it set”. At sight, it was a skirt of ganga with red, blue or black bar, as the age and the taste of the woman, being this skirt normally only for the knee, so that it did not walk to beat in the spikes of the cereals, not to break them, and in compensation, they used one ceroula until the feet, where they were tied with atilho made of the same fabric, and that it served to protect the legs.

In the head, they used handkerchief of cachoné or Chinese, or still handkerchief of fancy with drawings that varied between big cookies, quadradinhos and others, being this tied of form the one that could be pulled for the face, similar to protect the same in some works that were necessary. They used cloth hat of long border, so that in the hot days of it could protect them to Summer of the heat. The hat was almost always decorated with ribbons embroidered with letters or names, pretty penalties of birds, mainly of pavão, and also with spikes of cereals. Costumava to say that the first spikes of seara were of the mondinas, to decorate its hats.

Normally, in the work, the women walked bare-footed, only for the return way the house are that some used tamancas, but exactly thus they took off almost always them, so that they walked faster.

History and Customs **:

The inhabitants of the Ribatejo “work essentially in agriculture.”

In the end of the day of work, the workers “remained a little of energy, had fun themselves, singing and bailando slower fashions (called at the time fashions trippings). During them you cut with a scythe and thrashings of the cereals (wheat, barley, rye and others), these gentes, at least youngest, used to advantage some time of rest to sing and to bailar in eiras, where they could expand its sapateado one, singing and bailando faster and circled fashions (called fashions at the time jumped).

During the Winter, while the fertile valleys and the lands of lezíria were flooded, the flocks of toiros and horses were brought for charneca, joining themselves it campinagem to the staff of charneca in the jiggings about, appearing the satisfaction between bailadores, dancing themselves then the sapateadas fashions more, between them, fandango.

Tocata ****:

Our tocata is composed for 12 instruments, that we start to describe: