Typical Austrian dresses

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When the modern nation-states were formed, languages, cities, towns, customs, and clothing had to be unified. Although the particularities of towns, villages and ethnic groups did not disappear, the truth is that they all went through a kind of sieve to shape the national language, national history and national dress, for example.

Thus, each country or region within the same country today has its traditional costumes, clothing that generally comes from the Middle Ages and that represents the peasant, the worker. When we think of Austria, a man immediately comes to mind tyrolean dress and a blonde woman with long skirts and equally long braids. The truth is that these typical costumes that one thinks so characteristic of a particular area are never so characteristic and encompass more lands and even more countries.

In the case of Austria, broadly speaking, the traditional female dress in all Austrian regions is the Dirndl: a long skirt with a blouse that in turn is partially covered with a vest attached with hooks, ties or zipper in front and above the bust. The sleeves of this typical Austrian dress they are wide and bulging and the entire garment is covered with an apron.

For their part, men use the Lederhosen, leather pants that generally have straps hooked at the waist and that are worn with a white shirt with embroidered floral decorations. And of course, the little Tyrolean hat cannot be missing and the same is the jacket. Both of them typical Austrian costumes they ooze a peasant origin but today they have become so traditional and typical that if a tourist wants to take one, it can cost them dearly.


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