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Bride 'market' in Bulgaria Mail Online
Scores of young Roma women were recently paraded before potential suitors at a Bulgarian 'bride market' where poor families are given the chance to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their children.
Here the potential brides are provocatively dressed, donning gobs of mascara and wearing flashy jewellery, towering heels and mini-skirts. And surrounding them are young men whose family hope to find them a wife at a good cost.
The families gathered in Stara Zagora are part of a community of about 18,000 Roma known as Kalaidzhi, who traditionally make a living as coppersmiths.
They are among the most poverty-stricken people in a deeply impoverished region and seek to forge mutually beneficial unions that will help them weather Bulgaria's economic downturn.
The 'bride market' -- held four times a year on various religious holidays during the spring and summer -- is a chance for the Roma's nomadic tinkers to meet and not only catch up on gossip, but also play matchmaker for their adolescent sons and daughters.
It starts, like a high school dance, with groups of boys and girls in separate clumps, occasionally shaking hands and checking each other out while mothers and fathers stay discreetly in the background.
Boys and girls dance side-by-side on the cars in a rare opportunity that flouts the community's conservative values, in which youths are rarely allowed to mingle with the opposite sex.
Kalaidzhi are known to remove girls from school at 15 or even earlier to keep them safe from temptation.
If the youths warm to each other, the fair can trigger complex financial negotiations about the price a young man's family must pay to a woman's parents if they are to be married.
The cost of a bride -- between 5,000 and 10,000 lev (£2,200 to £4,300) -- has dropped in recent years as jobs have dried up. And wedding festivities are much more modest with cash so tight.
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「新娘市集」釣金龜婿 正妹待價而沽
吉卜賽未婚少女穿上最漂亮的衣服到「新娘市集」，等待求婚者出價。翻攝 AFP/Getty lmages
【動新聞╱綜合報導】每年春夏季，保加利亞的古老城市舊扎戈拉的吉卜賽未婚少女都會盛裝打扮，穿上最漂亮的衣服，毫不吝嗇塗上化妝品，聚集在「新娘市集」，等候求婚者出價。
未來夫婿的場合，也是少女改善生活，讓男女雙方互惠互利的機會。
其實舊扎戈拉的吉卜賽人大部份都相當貧窮，新娘市集是少女尋找
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