Plural of dirndl; multiple traditional Alpine dresses with full skirts, fitted bodices, and aprons.
The plural form of dirndl, formed by adding the standard English -s suffix.
You'll see dozens of dirndls at Oktoberfest, each one different, showing how traditional dress evolves—while keeping its basic shape, modern dirndls come in wild colors and patterns their great-grandmothers never imagined.
The dirndl is a Bavarian/Alpine garment adopted as 'traditional women's clothing,' but its modern association with femininity and costume was constructed 20th-century folklore revival.
Reference dirndl as a regional garment without assuming wearer gender; note it has historically been worn across genders in some Alpine communities.
["Alpine dress","traditional regional garments","dirndls (regional garments)"]
Women wore dirndls as everyday practical clothing before European nostalgia movements romanticized and gendered them; recognize this as a cultural appropriation artifact.
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