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            <title type="text">So you think you’d look stupid wearing lederhosen?</title>
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                                            Is it okay to hijack other people’s traditional dress and will you look silly wearing it? Our guide to why you should take the plunge and go authentic at the Oktoberfest
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                 Since we sell Bavarian fashion for a living, we sometimes get too deep into the details and forget that, for a lot of people outside of Germany’s sunshine state, the very idea of wearing things like lederhosen and dirndls is outlandish, scary even. The two main issues people from outside of Bavaria have are, firstly, whether it’s okay to hijack other people’s traditional dress and, secondly, whether they’ll look silly wearing it or not 
 Now, in our experience, these two questions are related. How so? Well, put simply, Bavarians have very little against anyone – regardless of where they come from – sporting their traditional costume. For many Bavarians, there’s nothing nicer than meeting people from Manchester to Mexico City wearing their traditional dress out of love for the world-famous Munich Oktoberfest and Bavarian beer. If anything, they see it as an honour more than as an insult – but with the one major reservation: that tourists  wear  national costume, not  compromise  it. 
          Go real or go home   Viewed from the other end, the issue is the same: if you think you’ll look stupid wearing Bavarian lederhosen or a dirndl, you won’t – but you will look stupid wearing cheap imitation “leather” shorts or embarrassingly low-cut party dress. So really, it’s a win-win if you invest in some genuine Bavarian lederhosen or an authentic dirndl: not only will you look great, but you’ll also delight your hosts. 
 Sometimes, a few pictures say a thousand words, and rather than describe all of the horrific slutty dirndls and icky plastic lederhosen we see every year at the Oktoberfest, we thought we’d embed this video we made a few years back documenting the very worst and explaining how we can help. Because if you think you’ll look stupid wearing our clothes, you’ll look a hell of a site worse in this… 
    
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                            <updated>2015-06-10T12:00:00+02:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">No-goes at the Oktoberfest</title>
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                                            While individual style is important, especially at an event like Oktoberfest, not all fashion is equal. Here are a few definite no-goes on Oktoberfest outfits. Oktoberfest in Munich is a meeting place of people of very different backgrounds and with very different opinions wit...
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                 As well as a festival of Bavarian tradition, the Oktoberfest in Munich is a meeting place for people from all around the world -with very different cultures and divergent opinions with regard to fashion. Americans might not see the problem with wearing flipflops while, unless they&#039;re on the beach, the French wouldn&#039;t be caught dead without a proper pair of shoes.. 
 However, when it comes to the traditional Bavarian costumes many visitors like to wear, it&#039;s the Munich hosts who make the rules! And once they&#039;ve donned their lederhosen, shirts, and shoes, it&#039;s often difficult to tell where people are actually from. Alongside the traditional styles, however, younger Munich residents have taken a more open and casual approach to the outfit. In principle this is a good thing, and it&#039;s great to see locals and tourists playing with traditional dress codes to make a fashion statement or express their personality or own national traditions. 
 But not everything you&#039;ll see being worn at Oktoberfest can be put into the category of &quot;individual taste&quot;. And some outfits meant to be light-hearted or humourous are actually complete faux-pas and downright offensive to Bavarians who love their traditional clothing. Even if nobody will actually confront tourists wearing cheap, ugly novelty &quot;lederhosen&quot; made of plastic or dirndls so short that they leave precious little to the imagination, they certainly won&#039;t be inclined to give them the same warm welcome they will extent to people who make a genuine effort to dress well. 
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                            <updated>2013-08-22T15:22:00+02:00</updated>
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