Peasant Costume of Sweden

 

Peasant Costume of Sweden 

From SWEDEN

By H.W. 

Rachel Dixon 

WHATEVER else your peasant costume plates are doing for you, they are using up lots of gay paints and crayons, reds and yellows, and greens, and blues, just as bright as you can get them. Climate seems to make little difference in the brilliance of national taste. for these Swedish costumes are just gay. 

The girl in the plate is wearing a dress from Floda, Sweden. Her black skirt is embroidered in colors, and edged with scarlet. Her dark blue apron has at the side a gayly embroidered bag, and is topped by a bright girdle. Little of the red and white striped bodice shows under the scarlet embroidered shawl. All this brilliance is relieved by a white blouse and stockings, and a scarlet cap decorated with needlework tops it all.

The dress below the figure has a blue skirt with a green hem. The apron you can make very attractive by coloring the wide plain stripe scarlet, the closely barred stripe green, and the loosely barred one in blue, leaving a white stripe in between .The bag and belt are scarlet, with narrow green bodice and straps, and red and green collar. The jaunty cap made of black velvet with red seam, scarlet ends and tassels, should be perched on the back of the head.  

The lad is a bit more sober in his array, but his love of color bursts forth in gay spots. He is wearing the garb worn in Dalecarlia. The plain black vest and white shirt is set off with yellow trousers and bright garters. The suit below on the left has a dark coat with gay embroidery at the wrists, bright tie, white or light colored stockings.

The suit at the right is from Halsingland. The dark gray-blue coat and trousers have bindings of red, and the garters are gay. The red vest is bound with green, and the stockings are dark. With this costume goes a bright scarlet сар.  

Reference:

JOHN The Child's Magazine HELEN WALDO and JOHN MARTIN EDITORS 1929