Figure 1.--The boy in thisb German ad, probably from the 1970s, wears the destinctive Tyrolean hat often worn with lederhosen. I'm not sure what the German words mean (trachten lederhose, leder trachten trager, trachtenhose aus Nappaleder).
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Figure 1.--The boy in thisb German ad, probably from the 1970s, wears the destinctive Tyrolean hat often worn with lederhosen. I'm not sure what the German words mean (trachten lederhose, leder trachten trager, trachtenhose aus Nappaleder). |
Boys wearing lederhosen as part of folk costumes often wear Tyrolian caps. We also see them called Alpine caps. These caps are the only kind of headwwear that we note being worn with Lederhosen. I'm not sure what the precise term was for these caps. They were normally black or dark green and worn with a feather. I'm not sure what the inspiration was for this distinctive style or just when it first appeared.
The Alpine caps were normally black and worn with a feather.
It was only worn by boys never by girls--although girls by the 1960s might wear lederhosen. Other caps were worn with Lederhosen, but most photgraphs since World War II show boys wearing leaderhosen without headwear.
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