The most expressive clothing from Pata area is a folk wedding dress. The bride’s folk wedding dress is characteristically richly embroidered, with bobbin-lace, bows and shinning ornaments. Originally the white embroidery decorated the bottom hems of the bride’s black apron but today the aprons are embroidered with colourful flowers. A white and later green skirt was substituted for the flowered and pleated skirt decorated with bows and lace. Plain sleeves have from one to five-coloured checked embroidery that creates motley ornaments. The bodice is made from damask, brocade or embroidered linen. High heeled boots are embroidered as well. The brides in Pata still choose to wear a folk wedding dress. Especially beautiful is the bride’s head-dress that presents the transition from young girl to married woman. Its upper and back parts are decorated with coloured and silver pearls, mirrors and garnets. The front of the head-dress has flowered bows, above them it has a silver wreath with a spray of rosemary. Long colourful ribbons hang from the back. A few weeks before the wedding ceremony, the bride will sit in the first pen in the church wearing her wedding head-dress, to announce the forthcoming marriage. The other important woman at the wedding was so called “wide” married woman symbolizing fertility. On the road to the church she distributes cakes, during the wedding dinner she collects gifts and after the ceremony she changes the bride’s head-dress for bonnet. Married women wear a small headscarf with tassels on their bonnets. Antónia Drahovská