Three years ago, my only Ukrainian friend at the time and even now lol, invited me to Kyiv. I lived at Fastiv at the time. Infact, that's where my Ukrainian side of the family still is and Kyiv is about an hour and a half away from Fastiv.
She recently bought a Canon Camera and I think she harbored plans of going into photography and she wanted me to model for her. She didn't tell me I was going to model for her before inviting me over. My friend can be eccentric like that. Anyways, I went and she practiced her makeup skills on me and invited me to wear this Ukrainian attire or traditional clothing.
It is called Vyshyvanka. It consists of a folk shirt or blouse for women and a red skirt. It's quite expressive and can be quite expensive because I think it's handmade.
I wore this and since I had no shoes because I'd obviously not come prepared and since I wear a size 41 to 41, my friend gave me a pair of slippers to wear.
We trekked some distance to KPI. This stands for Kyiv Politechnic institute. The institute is quite old and the students were still around and were definitely staring at us but we didn't mind. Actually, I'm an introvert and I did mind as I don't like attention but since my friend did not mind, some of that rubbed off me and I began to not care as well :)
Kyiv politechnic institute was founded on 31 August, 1898. That's a really long time ago, so it definitely has a long history which I encourage you to read about. In the meantime, I hope you enjoyed viewing some of the pictures we took. See you next time!
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