In the Swedish culture, garments and the rules of protocol developed for creating and wearing them reflected your place in society. The garments identified you by gender, occupation, social class, marital status and geographic location. Fabrics and garments were home/hand made.
We celebrate these wonderful garments and traditions as a means of respect and understanding for the life of our immigrant relatives, what they came from and brought with them. They help us link to time and place declaring "we belong together...we are linked to the past.