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Funen (Fyn) Island
Odense County and Svendborg County, Fyn
Women's Costumes
Funen, 1790
This costume is held in the collection of the National Museum. Fabric is red twilled linen called "drill," with light blue silk ribbon along the neck. Rococo apron, which was widely used at the time. Dark blue stockings. White scarf. Three-piece silk hat decorated with metal embroidery. A cape would have been worn as outerwear.
Munkebo Costume
According to Esther Grølsted of the National Museum, the costume from Hindsholm Peninsula (near the village of Munkebo) is distinctive and has the following elements:
a. red-and-white jacket and skirt in village-woven linen called "drill"
b. deep neckline covered by silk scarf
c. apron "alternating in red and green"
The image above may contain elements of the Munkebo costume. I have also heard of the Munkebo costume being referred to as the "Dræby Fed" costume, as Dræby Fed is the peninsula of land next to the town of Munkebo.
Image credit: Licensed from Folkedragt.dk
Costume from Bogense, Funen
Image credit: Landsforening Danske Folkedanser costume pattern book
Bogense
Burgundy dress made of wool and linen ("hvergarn"), with a small goose-eye pattern. The dress has a high waist and a bib that covers the front lacing. Almost all of the skirt width is gathered in the middle of the back. At the bottom of the dress and on the sleeve edges, a border of green velvet triangles decorated with a light green cord has been sewn on. Apron with empire pattern. Scarf of white cotton edged with lace. Three-piece hat of patterned green silk, under which lies stiffened linen.
Image credit: kultunaut.dk/FolkCostume
South Funen Costume, 1800
Image credit: Folkedragt.dk
Funen Costume, 1845
Image credit:Licensed from Folkedragt.dk
Men's Costumes
Odense County
Odense County man's folk costume (circa 1830-1840)
from "Folkedragter i Danmark" by Ellen Andersen, 1952
From the late 1700s onward, navy blue became the color-of-choice for men's festive clothing. In contrast, workwear consisted of uncolored cotton or wool, which was somewhat gray in color.
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The Odense County costume, above, has the following elements:
a. the cut is influenced by late Empire fashion.
b. the jacket and trousers are made of wadmal, a coarse, dense woolen fabric.
c. the vest is made from worsted wool yarn.
​d. the tall hat first appeared in the early 1800s as an element of men's urban clothing. By 1830, it was popular with farmers.
Odense County Men's Vest
Image credit: Dorte Flindt
South Funen
A sharp example of the South Funen costume
South Funen man
Image credit: Licensed from Folkedragt.dk
Central Funen
Central Funen man, 1790
This is a copy of a costume in the National Museum. Vest and jacket of striped wool and linen ("hvergarn"). Double-breasted with small, arched buttons. Breeches of unbleached wadmal wool, but could also have been dyed or made of leather at this time. Black silk scarf. Red knit hat or wide-brim hat.
Image credit: Licensed from Folkedragt.dk
This sharp "mid-funen" (presumably meaning Central Funen) vest appears to be woven in much the same pattern as the image above, just with less prominent white-and-black vertical stripes.
Image credit: Bente Johansen
East Funen
East Funen man, 1780
The original vest and jacket are at the Museum of Nyborg (Borgmestergården) on Fyn. However, this pattern became so popular that it was subsequently worn throughout Denmark.
Image credit: Licensed from Folkedragt.dk
Hesselager, East Funen
Hesselager, East Funen, 1800-1840
Image credit: Licensed from Folkedragt.dk
Jacket (with vest visible underneath) from Hesselager, a small village in East Funen. Silver buttons.
Image credit: DanishFolkCostumes.com
The Hesselager original!
Image credit: National Museum of Denmark
West Funen
West Funen man, 1800
Image credit: Licensed from Folkedragt.dk
Tømmerup (a parish west of Odense) vest fabric closeup
Note the unusual horizontal stripes!
You may occasionally find this fabric for sale at:
http://danskfolkedragtforum.dk/webshop/ws-/--øvrige-metervare
Image credit: Folkedragt.dk
Funen
Funen vest
Image credit: DanishFolkCostumes.com
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