The humble Alpine dirndl dress, with its distinctive white blouse, full skirt and apron, has won new fans among Austrians and foreign fashion-lovers in recent years. Its folksy appeal has made the ...

Extremely short mini-dirndls, overly embellished glitter dirndls, loudly patterned blouses, and dirndls worn without a blouse fall out of fashion for Oktoberfest styling. Modern dirndl fashion now ...

NEW CHIC: Model Anne Jansen poses in a traditional Dirndl dress made of African cloth in a shop in Munich. Photo: Reuters Prefer us on Google Every year Bavarian women don their "dirndl" to celebrate ...

CINCINNATI – Picture this: A woman walking down the street wearing a dirndl skirt and bust-hugging bodice paired with ankle boots. Or a man sporting lederhosen – leather shorts, traditionally worn ...

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 ...

In Austria and Germany, the traditional costume known as Tracht always used to be the preserve of the ultra-conservative. But these traditional clothes - lederhosen for men and dirndl dresses for ...

Every year Bavarian women don their "dirndl" to celebrate the Oktoberfest, but in the beer festival's 200th year the traditional Bavarian dress is becoming something of a national and international ...