Dress helps us fashion identity, history, community, and place. Dress has been harnessed as a metaphor for both progress and stability, the exotic and the utopian, oppression and freedom, belonging and resistance.
Dressing with Purpose examines three Scandinavian dress traditionsâSwedish folkdräkt, Norwegian bunad, and SĂĄmi gĂĄktiâand traces their development during two centuries of social and political change across northern Europe.
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By the 20th century, many in Sweden worried about the ravages of industrialization, urbanization, and emigration on traditional ways of life. Norway was gripped in a struggle for national independence. Indigenous SĂĄmi communitiesâartificially divided by national borders and long resisting colonial controlârose up in protests that demanded political recognition and sparked cultural renewal. Within this context of European nation-building, colonial expansion, and Indigenous activism, traditional dress took on special meaning as folk, national, or ethnic minority costumesâcomplex categories that deserve reexamination today.
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Through lavishly illustrated and richly detailed case studies,
 Dressing with Purpose introduces readers to individuals who adapt and revitalize dress traditions to articulate who they are, proclaim personal values and group allegiances, strive for sartorial excellence, reflect critically on the past, and ultimately, reshape the societies they live in.
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Fashion DesignTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Map of Scandinavia
- A Note on Terms and Place Names
- Introduction: Can We Talk about Traditional Dress?
- Part One: Folkdräkt in Sweden
- Part Two: Bunad in Norway
- Part Three: GĂĄkti in SĂĄpmi
- Conclusion: The Future of Traditional Dress
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
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