Gatherings, in Serbian called “sabori”, just like some other forms of social and folk custom symbols in various parts of the Serbian ethnical region, presented occasions when on a small area, through the presence of many community members, the particularities of their traditional clothings were shown. The clothing revealed where one came from and to which ethnicity he or she belonged. This was especially the case in ethnically mixed communities. In the XIX and XX century, there were distinct differences in clothing of the townsmen and villagers. The cloths in towns were developed under the Turkish-Oriental, and later European influence. The village traditional costumes were much richer and more diverse. We can divide them into zones:

Folk dress of the central-Balkan zone – central, eastern and southern parts of Serbia, Kosovo-Metohija area and Raška region

Folk dress of the Pannonian zone – it is present in Banat, Bačka, Srem, Baranja, Slavonija, white Krajina and Bosnian Posavina, which population is mainly Serbian.

Folk dress of the Dinara zone – it occupies a large area starting from the north, southern to the Sava River, over the vast part of Bosnia, continental Dalmatia, Herzegovina, prevalent part of Montenegro all the way to the mountain cliffs that stand tall above the belt of the Adriatic coast; in the central and upper Podrinje and south-western areas of Serbia.

Folk dress of the coastal zone – it occupies a significantly reduces area – the narrow belt of the Adriatic coast from the Boka Kotorska bay over Paštrovići all the way until the Bojana River on the sourt-east. It was developed under the Mediterranean climate and economic conditions.
 
Serbian female civil dress is made of a shirt from silky “Serbian cloth”, over which a long dress with long sleeves was worn, called “fistan”. Over the dress, one would wear “libade” – an open bell-shaped jacket bell. A long silk belt called “bajader” (pronunciation: baiader) was worn, stressing the elegance of the entire costume. During the winter women would use a fur coat, cut in the waist. A kerchief called “fes” completed their dignified looks, being framed with braids and a circle “bares” with a ring in the middle.

Serbian male civil dress - trousers called “čakšire” (pronunciation: chakshira) were worn. They had a wider pleated rear and narrow trouser legs, while in Herzegovina and Montenegro, one wore wide trousers called “šalvare” (pronunciation: shalvare), pants that reach to below the knees. As a jacket served “anterija” (type of a long-sleeved robe, pronunciation anteriah), and a “fermen” open to the front and without sleeves. “Dolama” presented a festive jacket with a “čevken” (pronunciation:chevken) cut sleevel, while during the winter one wore a “ćurak” (long fur-lined coat, pronunciation: ciurak). The waist area was belted with a silk “trabolos”; in Bosnia a red belt, but also a leather belt “silaj” (pronunciation: silai) with partitions for the gadgets for smoking, weapons and others.