Everybody knows the typical dress of a photo, picture or in the original, often described as dress of the Spreewald wrongly. But this dress is worn only to special days and is usually different from place for place. The older women only wear a dress kept in the colour covered without top apron and tucker, the everyday dress, in the weekday.

The colour range of the skirts (Kosula, the skirt) of the special day dress is great.
The colour red stands for the single woman. It is the colour of the youth, joy and love. Green was left up to the married woman. This is the colour of the honour and fertility and stands for the serious side of life. One will never see the colour white as a skirt at the special day dress. This stood for deep mourning until 1900.

Black is provided for the going to church and for religious celebrations. The use of the colours Blue and Purple are also more used nowadays. The skirt is decorated of a silk ribbon embroidered with flowers (Roses, pansy, shiner) and tendrils, in addition with top and velvet ribbon. Since the skirt is sewn in super thick folds behind, the ribbons reach a length of up to 3.50 metres. The silk ribbon is,...embroidered by hand one can imagine how long one must work.

The pastel-coloured silk scarf (Cypjel) lies around the shoulders. It is also embroidered with flower tendrils and in addition edged with a tulle top. To the special day dress ribbon becomes a white top apron and one-coloured used, also made of silk. So that nothing can slip, the scarf and the ribbon are fastened to the upper part of the skirt, the bodice, with needles. The dress is held with approximately 35 to 40 needles so together.

In addition, one still wears the headscarf, the bonnet (Lapa), to the dress in the area around castle and advertising. It is the biggest hood in the Spreewald. A cardboard to which the embroidered silk scarf is fastened with needles serves as a rack. Only Mrs Dziumbla out of castle can produce this special hood. She has an endeavour embroidery since 1990.

The woman of the Spreewald wears her dress with pride. Tradition consciousness and customs care are in the demanding reason. The material value also shall not remain unmentioned in this place. Woman must spend on a new dress between 1.500 and 2.000 euros.