Above: Attendants Owen Nielsen, Trevor Leitz, Halsey Prochaska and Laura Johnson wore the new outfits made by Kelsey Quandt. PCN photo by Beth Sparrow.
Kelsey Quandt, professional seamstress and former attendant, designed and sewed new costumes for the attendants. Quandt is an expert on clothing of different periods and Swedish folk costumes.
It has long been a problem that every other group in the Stromsburg Swedish Festival has Swedish Costumes to check out, but not the attendants, who are an important part of the festival and who act somewhat a…
