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<p>[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 2029844, member: 13874"]Great image, [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] ! Nordic with a taste of Arts&Craft I'd say, lovely piece. Now you just gotta get your<i> bunad</i> [dress] to go with!</p><p>If you have Scandinavian ancestors and can trace back in which region/county/parish they were born, you can still get the authentic <i>bunad </i>costume from that county. Although not massproduced you could get one sewn to fit you based on pictures of an authentic style from your ancestral region.</p><p><br /></p><p>One's folk dress was always particular to the exact county of birth as well as local parish. Which is why if one was born in another county/parish than f ex one's mother, one would not inherit her folk costume but be required to get one from one's own birth region. I was born in Östergötland (the county of the East Goths) so wear their style. Mother was born in southern Sweden, Scania, and therefore wore their regional style folk dress.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lizjewel, post: 2029844, member: 13874"]Great image, [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] ! Nordic with a taste of Arts&Craft I'd say, lovely piece. Now you just gotta get your[I] bunad[/I] [dress] to go with! If you have Scandinavian ancestors and can trace back in which region/county/parish they were born, you can still get the authentic [I]bunad [/I]costume from that county. Although not massproduced you could get one sewn to fit you based on pictures of an authentic style from your ancestral region. One's folk dress was always particular to the exact county of birth as well as local parish. Which is why if one was born in another county/parish than f ex one's mother, one would not inherit her folk costume but be required to get one from one's own birth region. I was born in Östergötland (the county of the East Goths) so wear their style. Mother was born in southern Sweden, Scania, and therefore wore their regional style folk dress.[/QUOTE]
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