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A dirndl is a type of traditional dress worn in southern Germany and Austria, based on the historical costume of the Alpine peasants. It became popular in Austria as a fashionable dress among the upper classes between 1870 and 1880. Image File history File linksMetadata Dirndl_Muehlviertel. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Dirndl_Muehlviertel. ...
1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
1880 (MDCCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Description
It has a tight bodice, low neck, full skirt, lacy blouse, and apron. While appearing to be simple and plain, a properly-made, modern dirndl might be quite expensive.
In Bavarian slang, 'dirndl' originally referred to a young woman or a girl. Nowadays, 'dirndl' may equally refer to either a young woman, or to the dress as described in this article.
Contemporary Uses The dirndl is generally restricted to Bavaria and Austria, but is also seen in these regions by women in the folk music business (which often targets an elder conservative audience in Germany). The Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ...
In Bavaria, it may often be seen on women working in tourism-related businesses, and sometimes waitresses in traditional-style restaurants or biergartens. However, despite being far from an everyday dress, a common woman in southern Bavaria may sometimes wear it at formal occasions (much like a Scotsman wearing a kilt) and certain traditional events. Surprisingly, it is hugely popular even among young women at the time of the Oktoberfest in Munich (and similar festivals in southern Germany), although most young women will only wear dirndl-style dresses (called Landhausmode), which may deviate by numerous ways and are often much cheaper. The Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...
Motto: , traditionally rendered in Scots as Wha daur meddle wi me?[1] and in English as No one provokes me with impunity. ...
It has been suggested that Irish kilt be merged into this article or section. ...
Oktoberfest Main Entrance Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September and early October. ...
Munich: Frauenkirche and Town Hall steeple Munich (German: München, pronounced listen) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern). ...
Popular designs are often less plain and much more revealing and provocative (e.g. having a short skirt and/or displaying significant cleavage). A true dirndl is usually a good way of distinguishing between a native Bavarian female visitor of the Oktoberfest, and non-native female visitors who may just happen to live for some time in Bavaria. Aria Giovanni wearing a shirt revealing cleavage. ...
Trivia - The dirndl is mentioned in the song "Turn Around", composed in 1959 by Harry Belafonte, Alan Greene, and Malvina Reynolds. "Dirndls and petticoats, where have you gone?" This song, originally recorded by the Kingston Trio, continues to be a popular dance tune at weddings.
Harold George Belafonte, Jr. ...
Ear to the Ground, a posthumous release of Malvina Reynolds recordings on the Folkways label, 2000. ...
The Kingston Trio is an American folk group, perhaps the single most prominent one. ...
See also Man in traditional lederhosen, 1897. ...
The Free State of Bavaria (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ...
An Austria folkloric group There has been a renewed interest in Germanic traditional costumes, or Tracht. ...
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