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• n  a full skirt with a gathered waistband
• n  a dress with a tight bodice and full skirt

• Walter is a bit of a bully who takes after his boodle-grabbing, dirndl-lifting father, the local Nazi Kreisleiter, but even so is devoted to his devoted mother.
• There are gaucho pants and bathing suits ($21), jumpsuits, dirndl dresses ($42) and hot pants ($10), all with expandable waists.
• His lace and or gandy blouses, gingham dirndl skirts and big-brimmed straw hats have turned teeny-boppers into minor Elvira Madigans.

News & Articles

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• Paulina Gretzky & Dustin Johnson Wore Traditional German Clothes & Drank Litre Beers in Germany
  Paulina in a dirndl.
  June 22, 2013 - The Big Lead

Quotes

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• Julia Mancuso in International Herald Tribune
  We decided after I won in Altenmarkt that we need podium outfits. So I went and got a Dirndl,Mancuso said. "If I win, that's my first-place outfit."
• Illeana Douglas in Toronto Star
  In fact, actor Illeana Douglas told Harper's Bazaar that one thing she learned from playing Diana Vreeland in Factory Girl, a 2006 movie based on the life of Edie Sedgwick, a Vreeland discovery, was that "a dirndl, with a tight waist and a full...