Title

Dala Floda Vest: Folk Dress

Creation Date

1880 – 1899

Count

1

Description

A red wool vest with vertical stripes in green, orange, blue, white and black.  With ten pewter buckles, or clasps, and two attached red ribbons, for lacing closure.  Beige linen lining and metal eyes around the waistband for attaching to the accompanying skirt.  Worn as part of a women's traditional provincial folk dress, or folk drakt, costume from Dala Floda, Dalarna, Sweden.  See also C-0551a-26 through C-0551f-26 for the other pieces of this costume.  Unattributed.