Swedish Traditional Costumes

Kingdom of Sweden (The Kingdom of Sweden) is located in the eastern part of Scandinavia Peninsula in northern Europe.

About 15% of the land is in the Arctic Circle, but it is not very cold in winter under the influence of the Atlantic warm current. Most of them belong to temperate coniferous forests, and most of them are temperate broad-leaved forests.

The Swedish (Germanic descendants) living in Sweden account for about 90% of the country's population. The rest are distributed in Finland, Denmark, the United States and Canada, and are mostly Christian Lutherans.

The northern Sami ethnic group is the only ethnic minority with about 10 thousand people.

The official language is Swedish.

The Swedish people have a high cultural quality, hospitality, honesty, honesty, civilized manners, punctuality and punctuality. Swedes attach great importance to environmental protection, love flowers, love birds and other wild animals, and love nature.

People like to use their leisure time to go to the wild, go hiking in forests and fields, pick wild fruits and mushrooms, go swimming, boating and fishing in the lake.

People wear traditional costumes and dance during Midsummer Festival.

The traditional costumes of Swedish men are wearing short blouses and vests, and wearing trousers with tight knees or ankle length, high hat or flat hat on their heads.

Women wear long skirts decorated with all kinds of colors, and some pockets are tied with purses or pouches.

Most married women wear different styles of hats, and girls do not usually wear hats.

Swedes like to apply all kinds of lace, knitting, embroidery and drawnwork to clothing.

The back of the glove should be embroidered with fur on the edge.

At the wedding ceremony, the dress of the bride and groom should be embroidered with all kinds of patterns. If the skirt is plain, it should be decorated with colorful lace, and the bride will wear a crown cap.

In order to embroider the wedding dress, the woman will spend several years to finish it when she is a girl.

Besides, Swedes love to wear wooden shoes.

Perhaps Sweden's domestic forests are all over the place, and the materials are convenient. Therefore, wooden steps form the characteristics of its traditional ethnic costumes.