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  2. Icelandic national costume - Wikipedia

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    The five following types of costume are all recognized as Icelandic National costumes. However both the kyrtill and skautbúningur were designed in the 19th century from scratch as ceremonial costumes, while the faldbúningur, peysuföt and the upphlutur are traditional daily wear of Icelandic women in olden times.

  3. Icelandic tail-cap - Wikipedia

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    19th century Icelandic woman wearing a deep tail cap. The Icelandic tail-cap or skotthúfa is a typical part of the Icelandic national costume.Originally it was only worn by men, but starting in the 18th century women started to wear it along with the peysa, a men's jacket with a single row of buttons creating the proto-peysuföt.

  4. Culture of Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Iceland offers wide varieties of traditional cuisine. Þorramatur (food of the þorri) is the Icelandic national food. Nowadays þorramatur is mostly eaten during the ancient Nordic month of þorri, in January and February, as a tribute to old culture. Þorramatur consists of many different types of food.

  5. Category:Folk costumes - Wikipedia

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  6. Lady of the Mountain - Wikipedia

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    The personification of a nation as a woman was widespread in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. [1] The earliest image of Iceland personified as a woman seems to have appeared first in association with the poem Ofsjónir við jarðarför Lovísu drottningar 1752 ('Visions at the funeral of Queen Louise, 1752') by Eggert Ólafsson (1752), but this image does not survive.

  7. The spellbinding history of Halloween costumes and how they ...

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    2000s: The rise of "sexy costumes" and going global By the early 2000s, adult costuming saw a surge in “sexy” costume popularity with the emergence of slinkier versions of everything from nuns ...

  8. Category:Icelandic clothing - Wikipedia

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  9. Fylgja - Wikipedia

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    The name skotta is explained from their odd habit of wearing the faldur, the woman's headdress Icelandic national costume: instead of wearing it curved forward as she is supposed to, she wears a brown-red [c] faldur curled backward like a tail (skott, "tail"). She also wears red stockings and sucks her fingers, but, otherwise, she is dressed ...