Subscribe Now!  Subscribe Now!  Imagine that you were walking
through a Swedish town on a normal day and everybody you met was
wearing a folk costume - the men in yellow breeches and bright
white linen shirts, and the women in long, colourful skirts with
aprons, bodices and a little bonnet covering their hair.  Unless
you were visiting Skansen or attending a folk music festival, a
scene like that would floor you. Yet just one hundred and fifty
years ago this was what it looked like in Swedish towns and
villages.  At this time Sweden was still an agrarian society and
90 percent of the population earned its living from agriculture.
But just like in the rest of Europe, there were big regional
differences in the country. Each region had strong
characteristics, the peasants built their houses in the same
fashion, they furnished their homes in the same way, ate the
same food and, above all, dressed in the same way.  Every
province had its own style of clothing, and every village
displays its history and culture thr