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English: Reconstructed Vikings costume on display at Archaeological Museum in Stavanger, Norway. The woman is wearing a white underdress, a red hangerock or smokkr, and brooches. The woman is wearing a white underdress, a red hangerock or smokkr, and brooches.
The hangerok (sometimes spelled hangerock or hangeroc) was a type of dress worn by Viking women and some other early medieval northern European cultures. The garment was shaped somewhat like a pinafore , with two straps over the shoulders secured by brooches.
Nordic bunad and folk dress on Faroe Islands stamps. In Norway in the postwar era, especially in more recent times, it is common, but by no means mandatory, to wear bunad at various celebrations such as: folk dances, weddings, baptisms, confirmations, Christmas, graduations and especially the May 17 National Day celebrations.
Icelandic woman in the 18th century faldbúningur with the spaðafaldur cap. The Faldbúningur is an older type of costume worn by women since at least the 17th century and well into the 19th. In its most recognized form it incorporated a hat decorated with a curved sheet-like ornament protruding into the air and exists in two variants.
Folk costume, traditional dress, traditional attire or folk attire, is clothing associated with a particular ethnic group, nation or region, and is an expression of cultural, religious or national identity.
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