Finnish costume

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Saami people in traditional dress, laughing and smiling in the snow

There are plenty of resources on the web concerning what little facts are absolutely known about Finnish costume. Most of what I’ve learned about Finnish costume in the age of the Vikings (la…

Hello all, I received a request for some information the traditional clothing of Switzerland, especially of the area around Luzern, so I will give a very short overview of this information. Switzerland, as is well known, is a multilingual nation which strongly identifies as one ethnicity. This is extremely unusual, and is rooted in the fact that the Swiss Confederation was voluntary on the part of its citizens, at least at first, and as it grew, that was still mostly true. Here is a…

Costume traditionnel Lapon

Hello all, Today I will be venturing into a country about which I have written little, Germany. There is a rich folk costume tradition in Germany, and yet there seems to be a dearth of detailed descriptive writing on the subject, which somewhat baffles me, as it would seem to be the kind of thing that the German people would thoroughly document. Schaumburg is a relatively small region on the border of Westphalia and Lower Saxony, in northwest Germany, about 30 miles or so west of Hanover…

Finnish Dress #5

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