Præstø County, Zealand
Præstø County within Denmark
Herreds within Præstø County, Zealand
Leestrup 1820-1835
Image credit: Dávid Botond and GeoFolk
Præstø County bridesmaid, 1840-1850
from "Folkedragter i Danmark" by Ellen Andersen, 1952
At weddings, unmarried girls wore the same headdress as the bride, only less elaborate. The bride wore a black dress. Bridesmaids wore a red nattrøje (sweater), bodice, green skirt, a white apron and white neck scarf.
The woman is wearing a costume from Stevns Herred. The sleeves are knitted wool and the apron is a typical Stevns pattern.
The man, who is from the area closer to the town of Præstø, is wearing his sunday finest with a neckerchief and linen shirt (center image), and regular work clothes with knitted wool sleeves (right image). In both male images, the breeches are made of deerskin.
The text "Folkedragter" by Minna Kragelund, from which this image comes, appears to say that around the beginning of the Empire Period (circa 1800), mens' vests started to use plain fabric on the back of the vest.
Stevns costume made in 1948
Image credit: National Museum of Denmark
Image Credit: Mikael Bjerregaard
Stevns Peninsula man, 1820-1830
from "Folkedragter i Danmark" by Ellen Andersen, 1952
The short-lived fashion of the Empire Period first penetrated the countryside in the 1820s and 1830s. Both the vest and shirt had a high stand-up collar. The many silver buttons were family heirlooms. The jacket above is a checkered dark blue, and the leather trousers have fine embroidery at the front. An almost-indispensable accessory was the silver-plated meerskum pipe.