Nordic tailor in red lace (9)
I believe the answer is:
icelander
'nordic' is the definition.
(Iceland is a Nordic country)
'tailor in red lace' is the wordplay.
'tailor' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'in'+'red'+'lace'='inredlace'
'inredlace' anagrammed gives 'ICELANDER'.
(Other definitions for icelander that I've seen before include "Kind of European" , "Nationality of citizen of Reykjavik" , "someone from Reykjavik, probably" , "northerner" , "Northern European" .)