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The Touloulou is the most famous of the typical characters and the queen of Guianan carnival.
This typical figure of Guianan Creole culture represents the bourgeois women of the 18 and 19th centuries, in their Sunday best, dressed in their heads to the feet.Le carnaval de Guyane avec le Touloulou du bal paré-masqué
/ref> This costume was initially not only worn by women. It was a disguise like any other and in no way recalled elegance but indeed in a satirical way, the women of that time. It was not until well after, in the twentieth century, that it began to be intended only for women, therefore feminized and finally lost its caricature to become a distinguished, refined and flirtatious representation of women in general, while keeping a mysterious side. This earned her the title of " Guiana Carnival Queen".
Image:Touloulous.jpg, Touloulous in Cayenne streets in 2007.
File:Kourou_carnaval_touloulou_2007_1.jpg, Touloulous at the 2007 Kourou Parade.
File:Kourou_carnaval_touloulou_2007_2.jpg
File:Kourou_carnaval_touloulou_2007_3.jpg
File:Kourou_carnaval_touloulou_2007_4.jpg
File:Cayenne,_touloulous.jpg, Touloulous in Cayenne.
File:Grande_Parade_de_Kourou_-_Guyane.JPG, Touloulous parading during the Great Parade of
Site de la Fédération des Festivals et Carnavals de Guyane
Guyane-guide : le site de la Guyane - Photos du carnaval
site en flash du carnaval en Guyane
Faire de touloulou l'icône emblématique du carnaval universel
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The Touloulou is the most famous of the typical characters and the queen of Guianan carnival.
Description
The Touloulou is the queen of the carnival. It is a lady elegantly dressed from head to toe. They are normally women without an inch of skin showing. She wears apetticoat
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, a balaclava, a Domino mask
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and long gloves
Ladies' evening gloves or opera gloves are a type of formal glove that reaches beyond the elbow.
Ladies' gloves for formal and semi-formal wear come in three lengths for women: wrist, elbow, and opera or full-length (over the elbow, usually r ...
. In order not to be recognized, women go so far as to put colored lenses, wigs and camouflage their voices. They do not wear their usual perfume, buy pairs of shoes for the occasion that they will not return and do not move with their vehicle to remain anonymous.
They parade in the street and participate in masked balls.
There is also a men's suit called Tololo.
In the nightclubs, renamed occasionally "universities", it is the touloulous who invite men to dance. They cannot refuse.
Origin
This typical figure of Guianan Creole culture represents the bourgeois women of the 18 and 19th centuries, in their Sunday best, dressed in their heads to the feet./ref> This costume was initially not only worn by women. It was a disguise like any other and in no way recalled elegance but indeed in a satirical way, the women of that time. It was not until well after, in the twentieth century, that it began to be intended only for women, therefore feminized and finally lost its caricature to become a distinguished, refined and flirtatious representation of women in general, while keeping a mysterious side. This earned her the title of " Guiana Carnival Queen".
Gallery
Kourou
Kourou () is a commune in French Guiana, an overseas region and department of France in South America. Kourou is famous for being the location of the Guiana Space Centre, the main spaceport of France and the European Space Agency (ESA). It i ...
.
See also
* Carnival * Carnival in French Guiana *French Guiana
French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. ...
References
External links
Site de la Fédération des Festivals et Carnavals de Guyane
Guyane-guide : le site de la Guyane - Photos du carnaval
site en flash du carnaval en Guyane
Faire de touloulou l'icône emblématique du carnaval universel
{{Carnival around the world Carnivals in French Guiana Entertainment events in French Guiana February events Festivals in French Guiana French Guianan culture Religion in French Guiana