59 OI magazine On the le , you have the Ortisei Schützen, and on the right, members of the Ortisei music band during the Corpus Christi procession. Gardena costumes are very similar throughout Val Gardena, with some minor di erences for children’s costumes and a male costume called “ciampac” that is worn by some men in Santa Cristina and Selva. e distinctive features of the male “ciampac” costume include long leather trousers, a velvet waistcoat, and a black half-cylinder-shaped hat, and in cold seasons, a short jacket with a fur collar. Gardena costume “ciampac” e rules and teachings on how to wear Val Gardena costumes are passed down orally from generation to generation. Wearing these typical Val Gardena costumes requires time, patience, and precision (for women’s costumes, it takes about an hour). e Val Gardena painter Josef Moroder, known as “Lusenberger” (born in Ortisei in 1846 and passed away in Ortisei in 1939), was a student and friend of the renowned painter Franz von Defregger. Josef Moroder depicted scenes of life in the Val Gardena in his paintings. He was a great enthusiast of Val Gardena costumes: he studied them, sketched them, and even made some modi cations to the garments themselves. He painted many characters wearing Val Gardena costumes (such as portraits of his rst wife Annamaria, his mother, newlyweds, etc.). He also created wooden mannequins dressed in real clothes, namely traditional Val Gardena costumes, which are now exhibited in the Museum of Ortisei, the Civic Museums of Bolzano, and Innsbruck. Together with a group of friends and Val Gardena costume enthusiasts, Josef Moroder enhanced the “Wedding Parade,” which represents how weddings used to take place in Val Gardena. is parade consists of more than 20 di erent costumes and represents the great variety of costumes existing in Val Gardena. From the church to the restaurant, the guests formed a procession with a speci c sequence that re ected each guest’s relationship with the newlyweds. e Inviter e procession is led by the “inviter,” a character that was once widespread in various states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, tasked with inviting relatives and friends to the wedding. He carries a long sta carved and adorned with owers and ribbons.
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