Danish Yule
"Dansk Jul" that is. We've just returned from our sojourn to Denmark for visits with family and friends and to re-connect with the Scandinavian fashion landscape. Quite the exciting time we had over Christmas and New Years.
Denmark has a cultural tradition of setting a "Hygge" or cozy atmosphere. Any time of year would feel like Christmas to an American or Western European with all of the candles and holiday-like atmosphere the Danes live their everyday lives with.
However, at Christmas time the Hygge atmosphere in people homes spreads out into the streets and shops, truely making the country a fabled winter wonderland with warm lights and fashionable sleek decor everywhere.
Then there's New Years - where the whole skyline is awash in fireworks that are much bigger, and much more explosive, than those us poor Americans get to play with. There is no official fireworks display - because everyone, everywhere sports a few rockets to light the night sky with and explosives to make you duck for cover.
In Chicago, we enjoy watching fireworks from the
rooftops of some to the people under your window, is filled with soof the high-rise apartment buildings. It's quite the spectacle to watch all of the suburb's various displays dotted on the horizon. Nothing compared to those of Copenhagen - where the horizon is smothered and everything in between you and the horizon, right up to your window is filled with dazzel dazzle.
Denmark has a cultural tradition of setting a "Hygge" or cozy atmosphere. Any time of year would feel like Christmas to an American or Western European with all of the candles and holiday-like atmosphere the Danes live their everyday lives with.
However, at Christmas time the Hygge atmosphere in people homes spreads out into the streets and shops, truely making the country a fabled winter wonderland with warm lights and fashionable sleek decor everywhere.
Then there's New Years - where the whole skyline is awash in fireworks that are much bigger, and much more explosive, than those us poor Americans get to play with. There is no official fireworks display - because everyone, everywhere sports a few rockets to light the night sky with and explosives to make you duck for cover.
In Chicago, we enjoy watching fireworks from the
rooftops of some to the people under your window, is filled with soof the high-rise apartment buildings. It's quite the spectacle to watch all of the suburb's various displays dotted on the horizon. Nothing compared to those of Copenhagen - where the horizon is smothered and everything in between you and the horizon, right up to your window is filled with dazzel dazzle.
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