From Protestant Peasant Dress to Gay Pride T-Shirt: Transformations in Sartorial Strategy Amongst the <i>körtti</i> Movement in Finland

From Protestant Peasant Dress to Gay Pride T-Shirt: Transformations in Sartorial Strategy Amongst the <i>körtti</i> Movement in Finland

This paper looks into the 200-year history of a particular Christian dress form in Finland, namely the <i>k&#246;rtti</i> dress. Emerging from a declining peasant dress style, this supposedly unchanging and fossilised signifier of a revivalist Protestant movement has in fact gone thr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anna-Mari Almila
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-05-01
Series:Religions
Subjects:
Protestant revivalism
Pietism
Finland
religious dress
dress strategy
symbolic boundaries
equal marriage
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/10/6/351

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