Sweden costume

Similar in shape and style, the German dirndl and the Norwegian bunad could be long lost cousins ! Vests with front closures, long skirts with embellishments and embroidery, and bright national col…

Aprons are practically designed to protect the wearer's clothes from stains and damages. But in some European countries, this piece of outer garment has been us

Sweden's National Costume - midsummer - the different provinces also have their own costume designs and patterns.

Sweden woman and man in traditional costume. Vector illustration. Download a free preview or high-quality Adobe Illustrator (ai), EPS, PDF, SVG vectors and high-res JPEG and PNG images.

The Swedish national costume This is the Swedish national costume. This costume you wear in special ceremonies like midsummer. If you had seen princes Victoria at her birthdays on TV you can see that she wear a national costume. The Swedish national costume has existed for several generations. It has also been in many different colors and patterns. The national costume I’m wearing is the one who is best known today. I think it is the finest of all suits. In old times varied the national…

The Swedish National Dress (Sverigedräkten) and regional traditional folk costumes (Folkdräkter) has both seen a serious revival over the past few d

As recently as 1830 Sweden was still an agrarian society in which each region had very distinctive characteristics. From home design, to furnishings, cuisine and dress, each region had a specific style in which all of its inhabitants partook. The dress was in fact enforced and since every province had its own style of dress, a worker from Angermanland was easy to identify when he came to work in Stockholm down to the very town of origin. Soon after the Industrial Revolution dress edicts…

Folk Costume from the Smolandia / Småland Province in Sweden where i live. Värend and possably Finnveden territory Värends traditional folk costume

Skedevidräkt - Östergötland. Sweden I think

Geographically, Sweden is one of the Scandinavian countries, so its national costumes have a lot of features in common with neighboring Norway, Denmark, etc. But there is a number of differences that make Swedish folk outfits unique. We’ll tell you about some of them in this material. Discover the beauty of folk dress in Sweden with us. Let’s look at these top-5 curious facts about Swedish traditional clothing.