That sounds like what a friend who was in a traditional dance group in Hesse told me. The womens dirndls were made to accommodate "middle-aged spread" & would last for most of a lifetime. The apron helped hide the expanding gap in the "stomacher" type front.
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Date: 2010-08-23 11:14 pm (UTC)That sounds like what a friend who was in a traditional dance group in Hesse told me. The womens dirndls were made to accommodate "middle-aged spread" & would last for most of a lifetime. The apron helped hide the expanding gap in the "stomacher" type front.
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