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The Dirndl          TRADITION & TREND      The DIRNDL, charming femininity combined with tradition , copied from the Trachten Once a working dress, now a shooting star  ~ pure glamour Dirndl: consisting of a top (Austrian: "Leibl") and blouse, wide skirt and a colorful apron. If you are going to be traveling in Europe this year, you can expect to see the venerable dirndl being worn as a fashionable dress and taking the place of honor in designer window displays all over the Continent. You might want to get one for yourself while you are there; dirndls are now very IN for the fashion conscious. (If you want to see the source for much of this material, visit http://www.dirndl-dress.com ) Originally, the dirndl was the working dress of female servants (Austrian "dirn": maid, maidservant); hence the term "dirndl" as an abbreviation of "Dirndlgewand" (maid's dress). Around 1870/1880, after Kaiser Franz Joseph made it fashionable to wear Lederhosen and Tracht, the upper classes adopted the dirndl as a modern dress and wore it on their summer holidays. Today the wearing of the dirndl is generally regarded as a sign of national pride; in material, color and shape it is increasingly subject to modern influences. No real lady or young girl, not having at least one model in her cuboard. The word dirndl also describes a young woman in many regional dialects of Austria and Bavaria. So a dirndl could be wearing a dirndl. Wearing a dirndl is a most feminine allure, and the décolleté a very important part of the glamourous view of these dresses.   Wearing a dirndle means: you are never walking alone The most popular dirndles are coming from Munich's and Austrian dirndl dress designers. New styles combined with old traditional shapes makes the dress so very attractive. Precious textures, embroidered, and/or laces, silver buttons and fine chains, big ribbons - a perfect combination for a grand performance.  At the Munich October Festival dirndles have each year their big outcoming. All magazines publish the Lady-VIP's dressed in a wonderful dirndl - `from the most famous dirndl designers. It would be a big faux-pas not to be dressed with a new unique dirndl in one of the beer tents.  More and more the dirndl is the coming-up outfit of women around the globe. Let's look at some models:  Winter, summer & marriage and party - take a glance - the seductive offer is huge: ~ Winter ~Marry in a Dirndle: ~or party in one  ~Special attractive designs               ~traditional dirndls Dirndl labels are known by the insiders as Gucci or Chanel in the Haute couture:                   In Austria these are some of the labels: Tostmann, Geiger, Lodenfrey, Hasegg, Sportalm, Giesswein, Julius Lang, Lodenfrey, Admont, Salzburger Trachten, Schneider, Lanz, Isola, Gössl, Alphorn, Sportalm, Styrian Lady, Moser, Wenger, Loden Plankl, Resi Hammerer, Tyroler Loden, Original Wurzer Dirndl. For Bavaria, look into some of these links: http://www.1stbavarianonlineshop.com/englisch/index.htm     http://www.1stbavarianonlineshop.com/englisch/index.htm http://search.msn.ch/results.aspx?q=trachtenmode&FORM=SMCRT You would like to show your long legs? So show them. Mini Dirndles are en vogue.   And what do you think about such a handsome partner look?  Not bad ~ the glamour couple of the evening   Lexica~ courtesy of http://www.dirndl-dress.com (This is where to go to get the best deals on dirndls! Their mission is to "Help Women to Look Adorable and Beautiful." How can you go wrong?) BSCHEISSERL - visible dessous in chest area (place for food stains :) FILZPATSCH'N - shoes for the home, made of boiled wool felt FLÖRL - choker to be worn with dirndl FROSCHGOSCHERL - elaborate ornamentation on dirndl HAFERLSCHUACH - 'right' shoes for tracht - laces on the side! HEMAD - shirt HUBERTUSMANTEL - Loden coat JANKER - broad term for alpine jacket JOPPERL - a short Janker KITTL - skirt KITTLBLECH - seam or ornamentation sewn onto the skirt LEDERNE - Lederhosen LEIBL - blouse LEIBLKITTL - Leibrock and Leibl in one piece LEIBROCK - petticoat LEINWAND - linen LODEN - water repellent carded yarn cloth, made of wool LOFERL - long stockings PFOADL - white shirt SCHLADMINGER - jacket made of boiled Loden SCHURZ - apron STUTZ'N - stockings ROCK - formal jacket for men (slightly confusing, since in high German it means skirt) WALKJANKER - jacket madeof boiled knit wool WETTERFLECK - cape, usually made of Loden or other water repellent material The Dirndle is a heart breaker - try it and see.  Wearing it -you will be the success of any event. It's a virus ~ long life and has its charm for young and aged, for thin and the "molly's"  The large assortments you find all over the world. Just get into the store and look around. For men the "Trachten-Look" is as attractive as for the ladies. http://www.dirndl-dress.com  here's some music to it: http://www.volkstanz.at/ Simone

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