Vyshyvanka Day 2021
The third Thursday of May, and the year the shirts appeared on video calls instead of in corridors.
A good Vyshyvanka Day.
A day built around being seen, in a year when most of us were seen only from the shoulders up in a small rectangle.
It adapted. The shirts appeared on video calls, which turns out to suit them: the embroidery on a vyshyvanka is concentrated at the collar, the shoulders and the upper chest, precisely the area a webcam frames. A garment designed centuries ago for a village gathering turned out to be well composed for a laptop camera.
I doubt anyone intended that. But a good design tends to survive changes of context, and this one had a quietly excellent year.
Wear it, wherever you are being seen from.
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