[Loch-ruadh] Fw: Ancient Finnish costume

[STEVE K ROURKE]

Forwarded from one of the A&S list for the costuming people out there.


> Good tidings from Finland! Tor president, Tarja Halonen, wore the ancient
> Finnish costume of Eura. It is a rich woman's dress from the viking age.
> This brought a lot of attention both to the Eura costume and the study of
> ancient costumes in general. This is really important because experimental
> archeology and the study of ancient clothing seems to be a bit overlooked,
> so we hope that there will be more funds for these fields in the future,
as
> Mrs Halonen has clearly stated that she supports them.
>
> There's a nice photo of the Eura costume in the following site:
> http://www.kolumbus.fi/turun.steinerkoulu/works6.html
> (Euran muinaispuku)
>
> Elonwen ferch Dafydd
>
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