Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Sauna Time 12 4, 4:28pm

You should totally do a comic where Finland and Sister Finland fight over if it should be called vihta or vasta. :D That's a regional dialect thing over here - in the east they tend to say vasta, whereas the origins of vihta is from the western coast, but it's become a more commonly-used word somehow. Maybe Sister Finland could be from Savo (Eastern Finland) and wear one of their costumes, too? Like this one from Kuopio, maybe? http://www.kansallispuvut.fi/puvut/img/kuopio_np.jpg Or, from Kangasniemi, with a dark blue skirt with small folds, and large white apron, a buckled vest of dark blue fabric with groups of small stripes in shades of red, and a white linen cap, accessoried with a white shawl that's attached with a silver brooch, and black shoes with white or dark socks, depending on the season of the year (white, of course, is for summertime). This would be great!