Blusones
Blusón
If you want to be really Valencian, get yourself a blusón and scarf. The Blusón is an overshirt, said to originate from England in the 19th century, usually black , it is worn with a blue and white checked neck scarf.
This garment, that the “falleros” use and “falleras” (though these of illegitimate form since the ” Junta Central Fallera “ considers it to be a masculine garment and it prohibits his use for the women in the official acts as it signs in the paragraph 2 of the article 64 of the Chapter II ” Of the Apparel “.) nowadays, it has a British origin. It arose in the 19th century in order to prevent the workers of the factories from getting dirty the clothes. Of the English industries it jumped to the continent and was adopted by the Spanish peasants in general and by the garden Valencian one especially. The daily use of the blusón into Valencia turned soon this garment in typical of the “fallas”
The blusón was in the habit of being accompanied on a few “espardenyes”(shoes) and a trousers of “rafia” (Dress Fabric) or similar.. Almost always it was coming accompanied from a low shirt of cotton and a strip of fabric coiled in the waist. It was a clothes of task for the field
