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BIOGRAPHY. 58
the front hair was dressed so that it stood straight up all
round the forehead, which was left free. This head-dress
was then powdered and adorned with all kinds of tinsel,
pieces of cut and colored glass set in brass, — so-called
Falu jewels, —gilt leaves, buds of flowers, the more the
better. Behind this high head-dress was laid a small
cushion, and upon it was fixed the bridal-crown, made of
silver-gilt, and very heavy, which, on the morning of the
wedding-day, had solemnly been brought to Arsta from
the church by the bridegroom, seconmanied by two of
his svenner, or bridegroom’s men. On one side of the
crown were then fixed three long ostrich-feathers, standing
straight up, one of which was white, one blue, and one red.
And now the bride’s head was dressed! If the bride was
good-looking, which sometimes happened to be the case,
she then looked very grand in this costume.
Then the bridal robe was put on. It was one of my
mother’s cast-off black silk dresses, which had lost its orig-
inal fraicheur, and had now been renovated and trimmed
all round the bottom with a broad gold band. The sleeves,
which in two divisions reached down to the elbows, were
trimmed with very smart black lace, exactly as one sees it
in old portraits. A berthe or cape of black lace was fast-
ened to the dress round the neck, and a large bouquet of
natural flowers from the greenhouse was fastened in the
front of the bride’s dress. ‘Two or three chains were hung
round her neck, and a gold band encircled her waist by
way of sash. But now comes the drollest part of the
whole costume. To this sash were tied all the bride-
groom’s presents, consisting of a black silk neckerchief;
one or two cotton ditto; a white handkerchief for the
head, embroidered with colored cotton thread; one or two
pair of gloves, etc., ete. All these things were hanging
straight down her dress, so that the body looked like an
‘itinerant clothes-shop; whereas her head looked as if it
had belonged to a queen of the Middle Ages.
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