A wedding in Dale, western Norway. 1908.

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  1. It’s kind of striking to me how, without the women’s dresses, I wouldn’t be able to tell this from a photo taken in the US around that time.

  2. Was it customary to only wear your bunad until getting married? it seems the younger girls are all wearing them, but the coupled-off women are wearing their own style dresses. Such a cool photo!

  3. “Alle frå Dale lyt forlata lokale”, as a blind drunk lensmann (sheriff?) started shouting when a fight broke out at a village dance.

  4. Morsomt bilde! Funny how the older the women the more they cover their hair. All guys have hats, but the groom has a bowler hat! And one guy has a sixpence. Even in rural areas there was international fashion influences. And the facial hair, young men are clean shaven. Slightly older have a mustache, and then trimmed beards, and the old guys have a big chin bush that haven’t seen a scissor the last decade. You give up after a while, or is it the eyes that begin failing so a mirror (without glasses) is of no help 😅

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