My father's mother was in her late 60s already when I was born, and I never once saw her wear anything except a high-necked white blouse, sage green cardy, and dirndl skirt. When she died, I helped clean out an upstairs storage space and found amazing clothes, scarves and hats. She was an artist (former student of Mora's beloved Anders Zorn) and in her younger days had frequented Greenwich Village and even contributed to an artist's co-op for a while, hand-painting designs onto silk scarves and wooden beads. I found several blouses and dresses that she had made herself, including the black taffeta number Reynir's wearing (which in life would look pretty stink on his flat chest), and yes, the uber-mod stretchy minidress that Sigrun wears! 30kg ago, I used to wear them too.
