Newlywed beaded headband

The beaded "fíkötő" of a newlywed bride is perhaps the most beautiful piece of women's clothing from Ipolyvarbó, which was put on the bride's head after changing clothes on the wedding day, when she tied her hair in a bun, and the bride could wear it until the birth of her first child. The "undressing process" that occurred in the late 1940s also led to this being forgotten. ; A linen-based headdress covering a woman's bun, sitting like a crown on the top of the head and reaching down to the waist on the back, with a slightly opening end, a two-pronged "hanging" part, which was covered with copper lace and decorated with colorful artificial flowers, beads, silk ribbons and butterflies (sequins) accompanied by ribbons that illustrate the old ribbon-forming methods, such as the gooseneck, squiggle or wolf's tooth, and the indispensable frog's eye and the shiny "devil's lock" resting on gold fringes closing the ends of the stem. The heavy headdress was attached to the bun part of the hair made with "curly hair" and smoothed with sugar water or grease with the help of a large bun pin.