Kari Dirdal, 1958
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at Bygdøy in Oslo Norway
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Kari Dirdal, 1958
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Randi Thommessen
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05/23/2015
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AncientFaces
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07/09/2015
The expression of this proud father is priceless.
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Interesting that the dress is what we used to call "tea length." I guess this was the appropriate style dress for an outdoor daytime wedding. Proud father and happy bride. Lovely!
Randi Thommessen
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07/09/2015
It was not really an outdoor wedding, Kari got married in Gol Stavechurch at the Norwegian Folk museum in Oslo, the picture is taken just outside the entrance to the church. Though she was supposed to get married at the closeby Bygdøy Chapel, but it burned down apx a week before the wedding.
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My mothers wedding dress from late 60s was tea length. That was just a style some ladies liked.
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I honestly don't. It's a special day, so a special length is more attractive
Helen Gazzara
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07/09/2015
This was also called 'ballerina' length and was very popular during the fifties. I think they were lovely and sometimes far more flattering. They also had shorter length wedding dresses during the twenties. This one, worn by Grace Kelly in High Society, is a standout favourite!
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In 1958 that was the regular length for our dresses.
Randi Thommessen
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07/09/2015
Randi Thommessen
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07/20/2015
'ALT for damenes' (womens magazine) - wedding couple - get 100 kroner to the first item on their wish list.
This is young sweet Kari Thommessen from Bygdø, who on a beautiful day in June was married to civil engineer Bjørn Janson, Oslo. He has studied for several years in Graz, Austria, and Kari has faithfully waited for him at home.
The wedding took place in Gol Stave Church at Norwegian Folk museum, as Bygdø Chapel - where they were supposed to marry - burnt down just shortly before the big day!
The young couple are now in London where Bjørn Janson has been given a position as engineer at a larger industrial corporation. And young Mrs Kari will keep the household and experience this big metropolis.
This is young sweet Kari Thommessen from Bygdø, who on a beautiful day in June was married to civil engineer Bjørn Janson, Oslo. He has studied for several years in Graz, Austria, and Kari has faithfully waited for him at home.
The wedding took place in Gol Stave Church at Norwegian Folk museum, as Bygdø Chapel - where they were supposed to marry - burnt down just shortly before the big day!
The young couple are now in London where Bjørn Janson has been given a position as engineer at a larger industrial corporation. And young Mrs Kari will keep the household and experience this big metropolis.
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look at the building in the background, it has grass on top.. cool
Randi Thommessen
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07/09/2015
This is the building in the back, an old farmhouse, moved from Telemark to this site in Oslo in the 1880's.
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theres an old log house next to us but the ones that bought it argued over what to do so they did nothing and it is falling down, so sad.
Randi Thommessen
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07/09/2015
This is the church and the site where the picture of Karl and Kari is taken. The stave church is from apx 1200 and was moved to this site in Oslo in the 1880's from Gol in Hallingdal, Norway.
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That is so cool. Nothing like we have around here. I would love to walking around in side.
Randi Thommessen
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07/12/2015
It is part of the Norwegian Folkmuseum in Oslo, so easy to visit if in Oslo. Otherwise, I believe there are some copies of Stave Churches in the US.
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her father is glad she hooked up with a rich man I meant....that's why he is smilin'...lol!
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Wow! This is'ancient'? I was married in June of 1958 in the USA and wore a long dress for the late morning wedding.
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Or maybe the U.S. Was behind the trend !
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I was only reading American Bride magazines ;-)
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It also depended on the economic and social class of the family and size of the wedding and wedding party; also whether the bride had been married before, as until recent decades nobody would have been remarried in full white/veil/bridesmaids etc. EVER. Many brides in the 30's through 60's were married in street-length or tea-length dresses, suits or dresses with matching coats.
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Kari (Thommessen) Dirdal was born on March 26, 1936 in Oslo, Oslo Norge, and died at age 51 years old on March 19, 1988 in Oslo. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kari (Thommessen) Dirdal.
Karl Thommessen was born in 1898 in Oslo, Norway.
At the beginning of the 1920s, he worked in a bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Later Karl Thommessen founded an import company together with Rolf Lauritsen in Oslo, Norway, the firm was named Lauritsen & Thommessen.
In 1928 he married Randi Ilseng from Porsgrunn, Norway. Together they got two children, Ivar and Kari.
The summer of 1945, he traveled first to London and then to New York, to work for the Norwegian Ministry of Supply and Reconstruction to buy car and car parts in order to get the transportation up and running after the war. He returned to Oslo in April 1946, and lived there until his death in 1992.
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