Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Swedish American Museum

2012.36.1.C_Front

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

2012.36.1.C

Description

Dress part of a Swedish folk costume (folkdräkt) from Skön, Västernorrland. Largely red with an upper section in yellow decorated with white flowers. The front of the jumper has a large green apron-like attachment decorated with red, white, blue, yellow, and pink flowers, a thick black horizontal stripe decorated with two red flowers and a yellow flower, and three tannish-orange stripes, two of which are horizontal, one of which is vertical, and all of which are decorated with yellow, white, purple, blue, and orange flowers.

Context

The folk dress was owned by Margareta Eriksson Backlund who lived from 1898 until around 1969. She arrived in the U.S. in 1927.

Acquisition

Accession

2012.36

Source or Donor

Elaine Meldrum

Acquisition Method

Gift

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Dress

Clothing Sex

Female

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1900

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

National costumes, Clothing & dress

Search Terms

Folk costume, Folk dress, Ethnic costume, Traditional dress, Women's clothing, Sweden--Västernorrlands län

Dimensions

Width

21-1/4 in

Length

42-1/2 in

Relationships

Related Entries

Notes

2012.36.1.A, 2012.36.1.B, 2012.36.1.D, 2012.36.1.E

Reproductions

Notes

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