Who will wear us now?
INGERID JORDAL
Voss, Norway
Each year Norwegians order more than 10,000 new bunads. But what happens to the trade when tailors are not allowed to touch their customers, and the 17th of May is canceled?
Laila Marie Hagen has never experienced a spring as quiet as this one. She’s a fulltime maker of bunads in Voss, and normally she would be sewing like mad right now. March and April are usually the busiest months of the year.
“It’s awfully quiet here now,” she says.
In springtime, all the young people who are getting c
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