Posted on 09/21/2012 6:36:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Southeast Minnesota is a beautiful place....also lived in Lake City and worked in Red Wing just prior to moving for work at 3M in New Ulm.
Prost!!
I’m actually thankful you had to describe a “modest” dirndl...being this long out of country away from the wife.
I totally agree.
Hah! Good one Cat.
Stationed in Augsburg just north of Munich, the Oktoberfest was but an 18 Deutschmark train ride away.
And boy, did we get away every year :-)
Imbibed there once on a business trip with my host, who was a local. Unfortunately, my trip had been postponed a month so it ended up being in November. Weather was cold and a little dreary, but at least not rainy like it had been in Vienna the week before.
A friend and colleague back at the home office in Texas, a Scot, considered Munich (around the beginning of October) to be his home away from home.
That would be just down the Neckar (and just up the road) from the Daimler-Benz main works in Untertürkheim. Also around the end of September?
I was on assignment on the opposite side of the metro area in Schwieberdingen and I missed it; could be that I was back in the States at the time.
Carnak the Great putting envelope to forehead: “Paris Hilton.”
Ed McMahon, opening envelope and reading: “Who has had more overnight guests than the Paris Hilton?”
Same here ...counted my days in the haufbrau haus an it was like twice a week for the 6 years I was in Europe ... Not just Germany . Made the trip from Italy at least twice a month when stationed there.....
Awesome beer and great atmosphere .
Stay Safe !
It’s actually the short cropped under blouse that determines the Dirndl’s level of modesty. My daughter bought one for herself two years ago, and has switched out the blouses for different styles.
What I’ve always found both fascinating and lovely is seeing young people in their teens and 20’s still willing to go out in public and party wearing Tracht aka.. Dirndl and Lederhosen.
Although Oktoberfest or die Wiesn begins at the end of September, the festivities of Bierzelt begin in upper Bavaria during the summer, usually in late July, and you will still only see a small minority who won’t wear Tracht.
Yes, the under blouse I had with mine was not low cut and it also did not have puffy sleeves. It had regular short sleeves with a thin row of lace around the openings. The same lace was around the neck line.
That is interesting that young people still enjoy wearing the traditional garb.
Are you sure they’re not cross-dressers?
That’s what I’ve been thinking about a couple of them (left and right wings.)
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