Next month, I’m going to Munich for Oktoberfest with my boyfriend and his Bavarian grandparents. Which is why I recently found myself in a thrift store in an unfashionable corner of Berlin, trying on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...