TRADITIONAL OUTFITS IN 2022

Traditional skirts with white blouse, high necked dirndls, washed dirndls made of fine cotton fabric or a wedding costume, no matter what you choose, a well-chosen traditional costume wears well on any floor, on any occasion. And in the right fabrics and with the right cut, you will receive special attention in their traditional costume styling.

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Stylish people wear traditional costume. Old, nostalgic styles experience a new upswing, festive dirndls and accessories make every woman shine. Tracht shows the pure joy of life.

THE ORIGIN OF TRACHT

By the way, do you know that the origin of traditional costume actually lies on the Theresienwiese? At the time of the first Wiesn, i.e. the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese in 1810, traditional costume - as we know it today - was still a long way off.

Before the famous horse race took place in honor of the bride and groom, the royal family was honored in the form of a procession of 16 pairs of children dressed in traditional costumes of the Wittelsbach dynasty, the nine Bavarian counties, and other regions. These costumes were specially made for the occasion, and it was the first time that Bavarian costumes were used for the Kingdom of Bavaria.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE DIRNDL

The invention of the dirndl dress shortly before 1900 was originally a purely urban fashion phenomenon. From around 1870, the dirndl dress became established among the upper classes of the urban summer public as a typically "rural" dress.

The Jewish brothers Moritz and Julius Wallach from Bielefeld, who founded the Munich Folk Art House in 1890, were instrumental in this. The worldwide breakthrough of the dirndl came in 1910, when the Wallach brothers outfitted the country costume procession for the 100th anniversary of the Oktoberfest at unprecedented expense.

The background to this was the contrast, repeatedly reported in local literature, between the supposedly natural, unspoiled and genuine country folk and the artificiality and depravity of city society.

As early as the end of the 18th century, there was a trend in courtly society to withdraw from the etiquette and strictness of court life in rural surroundings. The women's clothing worn for this purpose was based on peasant traditional costume in a romantic, reminiscent interpretation.

The invention of the dirndl dress marked one of the most important starting points for today's understanding of alpine costume.

DIRNDL FROM DESIGNER HAND

Today the most famous designers create beautiful traditional costume fashion. Louis Vuitton, Elie Saab, Vivienne Westwood, Christian Dior or with great creativity Dolce e Gabbana. In addition, there are now designers who exclusively design Dirndl and traditional costume fashion. Beautiful, exclusive models can be found at Kinga Matha, Lena Hoschek, Lola Paltinger, Sandra Abt, Carolin Sinemus, Gexi Tostmann, Tanja Pflaum with her label Ploom or Stefanie Schramke from Mothwurf.

Each of these exclusive Dirndls deserves a Dirndl bag of a special kind. Take a look at our Dirndlblüte online store and choose a Dirndlblüte dirndl bag as the perfect complement to your designer dirndl.

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