Quote Originally Posted by kfergos View Post
No umbrellas?!!
I kid you not. Here a link to a story of a couple of tv-reporters who got disapproving comments from the bunad police for wearing their bunads the wrong way on the 17th of May (our 4th of July) - make-up, sunglasses, and *gasp* pale shoes!
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2003/05/11/368464.html
Here pictures of the proper way to wear your bunad:
http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/20...10/431406.html
And here a link to newfangled "bunad-umbrellas", frowned upon by the oldtimers, as the only possibly accepted alternative to standing around in soaking wool is a plain black umbrella:
http://www.bunadrosen.no/maalskjema.htm

I don't own a bunad, since I'm old-fashioned enough to feel I should have one from where I grew up, and it's a really ugly one.