A04 – TUNIC SHIRT

Everything you need to understand right away. We’ll quickly travel around the world: it’s the most popular shirt type and we have it too! We rummaged so deep in the museums of the most fascinating cultures, through the villages and fairs, that we managed to find things that are not even in the books.

I’ll explain it to you together with Silviu and Gabriela, as I also learned, in stages. So:

A favorite of Queen Mary, who heavily promoted it, this shirt seems to have no barriers in time and space. Chameleonic, it has hundreds of faces, on all continents in fact (it is also related to kimonos) it is good for special occasions but also working days – one of its evolved versions being the t-shirt we wear today. It has no age, size or gender. It is perhaps the most approachable and wearable shirt and you can customize it super easily.

Special guests

Arch. Ioana Corduneanu, an experienced designer, launched Semne Cusute in 2012 to present traditional shirts from a current perspective.

Dr. Horațiu Silviu Ilea, museographer at the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest, expert in traditional dress.

Gabriela creates, passionate about sustainability and how clothing can express our identity, has been with Semne Cusute since the beginning.