The Old Ways

Finally, I have an update. Long overdue!

This started as a pretty mindless doodle, but I ended up finishing it mainly for the sake of actually finishing something for once. So, not surprisingly, it's firmly rooted in my comfort zone! But at least it's goddamn finished. Maybe I should count all the WIPs lying on my harddrive.

A little explanation. This is a woman is wearing a traditional 19th century Icelandic costume. Thing is, my summer job right now is at an open-air museum (Árbæjarsafn, for Icelanders), where part of the job is wearing old-time outfits. I usually wear something more mundane, but on Sundays and other occasions I wear this fancier one, although in a different colour scheme. It's a great job! Although it's mandatory for us girls to wear braids. I'm not exactly a fan. So I let this lady here have her hair loose.

Oh, and just for fun, here's a photo of me wearing this costume along with two other girls at the museum, I'm on the far left: [link] The photographer used the old fashioned way to photograph us!

My submissions seem to be oddly, uh, patriotic lately. Time for fanart!

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