The clothing of today

The Clothing of Today There are many different ways of dressing. You have plenty of different colours, fabrics and styles to choose from. You can dress after the things you like, such as the type of music you listen to or the sport you like, just how you want to, or as most people do; to fit in. Today we live in a world where the fashion industry is extremely dominating in the media and elsewhere and fashion almost has become an own art genre. Clothing has also become easily accessible and very cheap because the factories makes it very easy to produce. Mainly it is a free choice and you can dress the way you want to.

Paris of the North

Already in the 1800s, the city was considered one of the leading fashion cities in the northern Europe by fashion connoisseurs. The recent in fashion often came to Tromsø before it came to the capital of Norway. Since boats did not take the trouble to sail the long detour to Christiania (Oslo), they rather chose to continue north to the major cities along the coast. Tromsø was also the trading centre for fashion in Northern Norway and meeting point for Frenchmen, Germans and Russians, which meant that the city already had at that time a cosmopolitan atmosphere and had influences from many cultures and countries. There were some examples of dress code and common fashion traits; the men used hats and coats, and the women had dresses with big skirts, used a lot of jewellery, blonds and sometimes they used decorative hats with flavours or bow tie. The widows would most likely be dressed in black. A common way to show off your social status would be to wear a lot of fabric, accessories and decorations on your clothes.

A local orchestra.

In the early 19 th century Tromsø there was actually not a whole lot of forms of public entertainment available. While it received city-status a good while before this, the city was in its developing stages and people seemed to focus more on working than they did on such forms of recreational entertainment. There may have been more unofficial ones, though. Like, there have probably always been, in the forms of more amateur performers and possibly travelling circuses, though that’s not exclusively related to Tromsø. But there was a drama club that was founded in 1820, which is most likely the earliest performing organization in Tromsø. But as stated, there were actually either extremely few, that there’s no information on, or none at all that actually exited exactly 200 years ago.

Photograph is from Eventhuset in Tromsø.

Today there are a whole lot of alternatives for entertainment in Tromsø. Since technology has changed a lot in recent years, there have been inventions of new ways of public entertainment around the globe in general, too. Throughout the years we’ve gotten two cinemas after the invention of film, for example. We also have a large theater, as well as a few smaller ones. There’s also a popular entertainment center and the more ordinary museums, which we have several of throughout the city. These are the more common ones, but there is a whole lot more, held wherever it may be suitable; from magic shows to dance-performances to musical concerts or whatever it may be.