Why Cotton as Linen? The Use of Wool in Beds in Norway

Abstract

Ingun Grimstad Klepp prof. wrote her MA and PhD on leisure time and outdoor life at the University of Oslo. She is a research professor at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO) with research on sustainable textile, clothing, laundry, and leisure consumption. She has written numerous articles and books of these themes. She currently works with wool, both with consumption and questions regarding the value chain. The relationship between textiles, social and physical characteristics and how these are woven together is at the core of her interest. In autumn 2013 she published a book about wool in Norwegian. For more information, please see homepage:

3. Uniformity Without Uniforms: Dressing School Children in Norway

“…'There is no bad weather, only bad clothes' is a Norwegian saying and represents a national clothing discourse (Hebrok, Klepp, & Turney, 2016). The most important ideologist was Fridtjof Nansen (Klepp, Tobiasson, & Laitala, 2017), and this discourse has had a great impact especially on kindergarten children (Klepp & Tobiasson, 2013). A short version of the ideology is to 'dress according to the weather', which is practiced in particular in connection with what is called in Norwegian 'friluftsliv' (outdoor recreation) and is an important concept for Norwegian policies related to leisure time (Aall, Klepp, Støa, Engeset, & Skuland, 2011;Norwegian Environment Agency, 2016).…”

“…In Britain, multiculturalist policies and the state's acknowledgment of visible expressions of religious and ethnic differences has resulted in the Sikh turban, Muslim hijabs and Jewish kipahs having become an integral part of school and work uniforms (Tarlo, 2010, p. 4). There is a rich literature based on clothing research about Muslim or Islamic fashion, especially from the UK (Lewis, 2015;Tarlo, 2007Tarlo, , 2010. In Norway, the debate about 'the veil' has been dominated by an understanding of the phenomenon as faith-related and not clothing-related, and with contributions from the history of religion (Kjensli, 2009;Thorbjørnsrud, 2004).…”