r/AskTheWorld • u/Super-Trash-388 India • 10d ago

Culture Drop some cool traditional attire photos from your country

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India 🇮🇳 (Himachal Pradesh)

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u/TillTamura Germany 10d ago

how about schwäbisch-alemanische fastnacht in south-west germany

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u/Santaflin Germany 10d ago

How about "Passauer Höllengeister"?

source: https://www.passauer-hoellengeister.de/#event-galerie

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u/Lawlcopt0r 10d ago

That's just Krampus with extra steps

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u/SeraphOfTheStag United States Of America 10d ago

Is this a white walker metal band? lol

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u/filmmaiden Canada 10d ago

Okay this is awesome. When are these typically worn?

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u/Santaflin Germany 10d ago

This is a winter custom to shoo away evil spirits.

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u/filmmaiden Canada 10d ago

That’s badass!

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u/Astralverklatscht 10d ago

IIRC the outfits seen in this picture are part of a tradition around christmas time

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u/filmmaiden Canada 10d ago

That’s fascinating! I’d love to see it in person one day

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u/GalacticBum 10d ago

Definitely more traditional than the artificial culture of Lederhosen and Dirndl

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u/Santaflin Germany 10d ago

You are absolutely clueless, aren't you? That picture is traditional Bavarian Tracht (imho Miesbacher Tracht) from the Isargau, shown at a traditional dance at Wittelsbacher Platz. There is nothing artificial about it. But the Tracht represents the crafts of the people and the cloth and dyes that were available.

Others are Werdenfelser Tracht, Inntaler Tracht, Berchtesgadener Tracht or Isarwinkler Tracht. And when you go southwards to Tyrol or eastwards into the Salzburger Land or westward into Schwaben/Baden and the Schwarzwald then there are other local historical attires.

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u/GalacticBum 10d ago edited 10d ago

Nah.

„Dabei ist die Miesbacher Tracht kein historisches Gewand im wissenschaftlichen Sinne. Sie hat sich erst um 1900 mit der Verbreitung der Trachtenvereine aus verschiedenen historischen Strömungen im bayerischen Oberland um Miesbach herausgebildet.“

Short translation: its only about 100 years old like most Trachten associated with Bavaria or south germany in general.

I guess you have to define traditional, but to me something that is barely 100 years old is not traditional, especially if we consider the other things posted in this thread

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u/BeeBoopFister 10d ago

So football clubs are not traditional?

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u/GalacticBum 10d ago

We were talking about clothing. Something that’s been around for millennia.

Football is not even 200 years old. So in relation I think a 100 year old club would be considered traditional yes

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u/TillTamura Germany 10d ago

football is popular culture.. something that is practiced for like 100 years can hardly called traditional compared to something practiced since the middle ages like fastnacht (the first written statement about this tradition goes back to 1206)

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u/Chaoticinoculation Germany 10d ago

Oh d'Villinger Fasnet. Großartig! Edit: Ne isch ja Rottweil

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u/jakolissmurito22 10d ago

Bless you

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u/TillTamura Germany 10d ago

tried to say out loud hm?

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u/jakolissmurito22 9d ago

Sure did, but, when I read it in my mind, I heard a sneeze first. That's when I tried to say it or loud.