17 May (Norway's National Day, like July 4th) on tv. Getting ready to go out in it. Shame the US doesn't have a national costume tradition like Norway, because the bunader sure are pretty. Everyone looks so elegant and olde worlde in their outfits, it adds a certain old school charm to Oslo. Women walk better in full skirts than they do in tight mini-skirts, more assured and almost swaggery. Nice to see.
Even nicer are the men in tight bucksin trousers.
I love 17 Mai!
You should love the day cause I was born today. ;) Someday when you are back in the states we must meet. You need to visit Wisconsin. Or I need to visit Texas. Either one will work.
ReplyDeleteyou and a very good friend of mine were born today. I've never been to Wisconsin...have you been to Texas?
ReplyDeleteFunny story: Hiding from anything and everything Norwegian today in West Hollywood, CA; lo and behold, a band of Norwegian and a few American youths came parading into my Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, waving Norwegian flags and wearing flag lapel pins. I nearly fainted.
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