Xhubleta

Elena – miss Bjeshka, 2015 – with xhubleta

It is a historic and traditional women’s wear in the Malësi e Madhe, Shkoder – a heavy black woolen sleeveless smock belling out at the bottom. The scientists of ethnography say that this is a very old sort of wear. It is an analogy with the wear of some Neolithic figures of Mediterranean, which belong to the second century B.C. and are connected to an old civilizations in Mediterranean.

Xhubleta is the traditional folk costume of the women of Malesia e Madhe of Shkodra and it is considered by the scholars of Ethnography with ancient backgrounds.

Xhubleta is analogous to the garment of some Neolithic figurines found in Bosnia’s Klicecac, but also in other parts of the Mediterranean, belonging to the second millennium before the new era and linked with the old Mediterranean civilizations.

In this picture, there is a feast Miss Highland (2015),
where xhubleta is promoted as a traditional clothing for women…

Zadrima is also an area that continues to maintain a kind of typical Albanian clothing, like in the following picture, where there is a women’s dresser, dressed in traditional clothes, and with a knitted bag in the arm.