The bridal costume that survived a shipwreck
<img style="margin:0 1em 1em 0;" align="left" alt="The photo shows three women wearing recreated costumes by Guðrún Skúladóttir: Erla Rúrí in the center wearing the recreated bridal costume, alongside Guðlaug and Hildur in 18th-century faldbúningur costumes with recreated skirts by Guðrún Skúladóttir." src="https://c.arvakur.is/frimg/1/67/51/1675134A.jpg"/> Every autumn, the National Museum of Iceland celebrates the Icelandic national costume with a festival, and this weekend’s National Costume Festival is particularly exciting because of the exhibition A Story in the Luggage – The Bridal Costume, which opened in May and features one of the most elaborate traditional faldbúningur costumes in Icelandic history.