the Economist<\/a> (back in August), wearing tracht (traditional dirndls and lederhosen)\u00a0is becoming increasingly popular, not just at Octoberfest, where we saw, seven years ago now, that it was quite common for young people to dress up for their night at the Wies\u2019n, but for a wedding, or even at a night on the town or a visit to the biergarten.\u00a0 <\/p>\nYou know, I think we\u2019re missing out.\u00a0 We Americans have no national costume, nor even a regional costume (except for cowboy-type traditions out West).\u00a0 We don\u2019t have a folk dance (does Square Dance count?).\u00a0 And we have very lame national or regional traditions (watching football games at Thanksgiving doesn\u2019t count).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s a fun slideshow from Spiegel.de \u2014 you don\u2019t have to read German to figure out that these are pictures of people partying at Octoberfest.\u00a0 And according to the Economist (back in August), wearing tracht (traditional dirndls and lederhosen)\u00a0is becoming increasingly popular, not just at Octoberfest, where we saw, seven years ago now, that it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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