Oktoberfest 2023
Looking for Costumes or decorations for your Oktoberfest events? Come in store and visit us.
The Oktoberfest is the world’s largest Beer Festival. Held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is a 16- to 18-day Festival running from mid or late September to the first Sunday in October, with more than six million people from around the world attending the event every year. The Oktoberfest is an important part of Bavarian culture, having been held since the year 1810. Other cities across the world also hold Oktoberfest Celebrations that are modeled after the original Munich event.
If you’ve been to Oktoberfest you are familiar with lederhosen and dirndls.
Lederhosen, which means “leather trousers” in German, are the short leather pants worn by men. These are usually knee-length and are the historically worn by working-class German men with rustic shoes and wool socks. Lederhosen worn in the Bavarian region had features such as suspenders and front flaps, and these were quickly adopted by other countries. These pants were worn with shirts and sweaters made of coarse linen or wool. Jackets and hats vary according to region and occasion.
The dirndl is a ruffled apron dress worn by German women that consists of a bodice, or blouse, and a skirt. In the 19th century, the dirndl was the standard uniform of servant girls, but today it is mostly worn in Bavaria and Austria, and like lederhosen, usually for celebration.
