Posted on 09/20/2015 8:58:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Oktoberfest has inspired modern variations on a traditional German dress. The fashion police are not pleased.
Oktoberfest has officially begun, and the dirndls are out. Munich’s two-week beer festival may be more famous for its hoppy amber drafts, 600 to 800 pass-out-drunk bodies, and impressive but steadily decreasing number of brawls—but in recent years it has also become a fashion event, briefly diverting the attention of Germany’s style writers from international runways to folk costume, and turning magazine websites into the mother lode of 16-part slideshow tutorials for dauntingly complicated, hauntingly beautiful braided updos that make DIY bridal hair this side of the Atlantic look like amateur hour.
The dirndl, a dress traditionally made from loden cloth and consisting of a close-fitted bodice over a blouse, with a full skirt and apron, is one of the female iterations of the Alpine folk costume native to southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. Somewhat more widely recognized is the commensurate male attire: lederhosen. While it’s not uncommon for such Trachten to make an appearance at other special occasions throughout the year, Oktoberfest brings them out in force, with tourists frequently donning the garments as well.
This year, most style-watchers agree, “traditional” is in fashion. That may sound obvious, but in fact it’s a shift from the modern styles floating around over the past decade, which included a hemline falling to the thigh rather than the calf or ankle, an off-the-shoulder, low-cut blouse, and aprons adorned with contrasting and equally bright embellishments. Now the pendulum has swung back in the other direction, both in size and sensibility. “Mini is a no-go,” one young saleswoman told the Berliner Zeitung last Sunday.
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Will the Krauts give up Oktoberfest next year to please their new refugees?
I would call that an improvement. But, then again I am not a Muslim. Perhaps if everyone in Germany took up this fashion; the Islamics would be insulted and would leave?
Pictures!! This thread needs lots of pictures!
Muslims are in a snit over it so I'm for it.
1.) Munich during Octoberfest
2.) Pamplona during the Festival of St. Fermin
My, what big receptacles.
Oops posted the wrong one..well that one deserves to be seen twice lol
bflr
"The idealization of the dirndl was about presenting the ethnically German farm woman as a model of femininity, fertility, and folk vigor."
Well, they ARE that, if nothing else.
The dirndl is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Nobody (male anyway) was looking at the beer steins. :-)
They say “Spaten” - because I know you missed that.
Until you’ve seen too much of a 50+ year old woman with out dainties so attired, you don’t know what you are saying.
Was over 35 years ago at a German American festival - not good.
If Merkel and her ilk have their way, yes.
From their point of view, Germany has no right to its culture or its existence, so keeping Oktoberfest in opposition to the will of the ‘migrants’ is wrong.
"Schön..schön..mit der kleinen Sitzen und der grossen Titzen."
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