
Men wore some kind of bronze long traditional jacket with straight cut without folds and fastened with hooks. Under the jacket, you could see the waistcoat – white linen ones in the summertime or black woollen ones in the wintertime. Shirts were typically red or blue. Depending on the season, men put on various trousers, linen ones in the summertime and cloth-like ones worn in the wintertime with legs put into long leather boots. In the summertime, people often wore wooden slippers – the so-called
“korki”. The Slovincian used to pull up colourful woollen bands onto their knees. They wore black felt hats with wide rounded brims with a black stripe. A typical women's outfit was specific for its prevailing black colour. Striped dresses and skirts were mainly dark, black and grey. They decorated their heads with black bonnets
(“zagłówki”, “spadnóżki”) sometimes embroidered with use of brocade. The only bright part of the outfit were red stockings. Unmarried women went with their heads uncovered plaiting their hair – they only decorated their heads with colourful, silk stripes embroidered with flowers. Girls wore pinafores in bright colours: pink, light blue or green. An exact description of the Slovincian living in Cecenowo was brought by pastor Lork from Cecenowo who published it together with illustrations in
„Pommersche Provinzialblatter” in 1821.

An old association of Slovincian fishermen based on fishing community (in terms of boats/fishing nets) were
“maszoperia” that also played a role of a fishing council until the end of the XIX century. They followed common law regulations and cared about interests of particular fishing villages. A condition to meet in order to be able to belong to a
maszoperia was to make a certain contribution in the form of fishing tackle or work done by yourself. We should remember that a fishing character of a village not only had to do with fishing itself but also with making, repairing and keeping fishing nets in a good condition as well as with processing fish.
Maszoperia guaranteed a fair share in income distribution. In typically fishing villages, a skipper was a head of the whole village and this position passed from father to son. On the other hand, in farming villages, a skipper was elected by people. Fishermen's wives were those who typically sold fish. With heavy baskets made from small pieces of bark (called
“kariny” or
“leszki” depending on their shape) completely loaded with fish, those women sometimes walked even 30 kilometres a day. While passing by nearby villages, they sold fish for money or exchanged them for another goods.
In the countryside, there were also some harvesting customs. Since harvest time is an important holy day in a folk culture, its ending was celebrated in a specific way. The last sheaf cut in the field was called “dziad zniwny”. After decorating it, it was ceremonially taken to a stable with people playing music and singing songs. Once the harvest was done, villagers went to houses in arranged order to inform the householders that harvest came to an end using a symbolic wreath from plaited cereal ears. When it was necessary to quickly collect cereal from one's field, all the village got to work at night. The action was preceded by “judgement” about the field and after a proper speech, the field was “sentenced to death”. Then, the sentence was executed by cutting cereal crops with scythes and sickles.
Weddings were often held on Mondays, Fridays or Saturdays in the autumn. A person responsible for inviting guests was a master of ceremony (“starosta weselny”). The hat and staff of the master were decorated with silk colourful stripes that were an important element of a wedding outfit of all the participants. A wedding invitation was spoken by the master in rhyme when visiting another houses. Wedding gifts were collected and taken to bride's home in the “virgin evening”. After ceremonies in church, a wedding train typically stepped into a pub for some meal and only after that walked to the wedding house to begin a wedding feast. Another specific element were Slovincian weddings organized together. They took place on 2nd October, on St. Dionysus' day. Several newly-weds came together and they were ordered by one single master of ceremony. Such weddings took place in Glowczyce, Cecenowo, Izbica and Zarnowsko.

Since meadows near Kluki turned into bogs during spring thaws, horses sometimes became bogged down in marshes. Because of that, the Slovincian prepared special wooden boots for them called klumpy. In almost every farm, horse boots were in place. Klumpy were typically made from light lime or poplar wood, they were put on legs and fixed to pasterns with straps. A boot put on in that way fit tight to horse's hoof successfully extending surface a horse could stand on safely on mud. Each horse had two or four tailor-made boots kept in reserve.
A specific free-standing element of the small rural architecture in Kluki were bread ovens. Next to the oven fireplace a space for tools and dishes useful for making the dough was located. In Kluki, bread was mostly baked from rye flour with some wheat flour if a householder was considered a wealthy person. Boiled potatoes were also added to the dough in order to make bread be fresh for longer. Such traditional bread is baked even up to this day in one of the restored bread ovens in the Slovincian Countryside Museum in Kluki.