What is "dirndls"

Usage examples of "dirndls".

Florian noted with approval that all the girls were pretty, as Fitzfarris had said, and that Fitz had dressed them in dirndls of blue and white.

Along the way they saw groups of young people in national dress, the boys in lederhosen and feathered loden hats, the girls in dirndls, who waved and called greetings as the two big motor cars sped past.

Heidi was an orphan so Sigmund Boldt gave her away, and there were a dozen or so of Heidi's friends, most of them her superiors and colleagues in the Ministry of Propaganda and Information, but there were others, her cousins and more distant relatives in the black dress uniforms of the elite SS divisions, or the blue of the Luftwaffe or the field grey of the Wehrmacht, and pretty girls, some of them in the traditional peasant-style dirndls of which the Nazi Party so strongly approved.

They made a colorful cross-section, many of them wearing the old traditional national costumes that had lain in trunks for generationsembroidered dirndls, elaborate peasant blouses, Balkan tunics, sarongs, chesterfields, tam-o'-shanters, gray flannels, and regimental ties.

The art-film theaters' marquees and posters and ads for the thing were all required to say something like 'THE JOKE': You Are Strongly Advised NOT To Shell Out Money to See This Film, which art-film habitues of course thought was a cleverly ironic anti-ad joke, and so they'd shell out for little paper theater tickets and file in in their sweater vests and tweeds and dirndls and tank up on espresso at the concession stand and find seats and sit down and make those little pre-movie leg and posture adjustments, and look around with that sort of vacant intensity, and they'd figure the tri-lensed Bolex H32 cameras one held by a tall stooped old guy and one complexly mounted on the huge head of the oddly forward-listing boy with what looked like a steel spike coming out of his thorax the big cameras down by the red-lit EXITS on either side of the screen, the patrons figured, were there for like an ad or an anti-ad or a behind-the-scenes metafilmic documentary or something.

He gazed about, noticing that the men all wore outfits similar to his guide's, and that the women were dressed in uniform dirndls, the skirts white beneath green bodices.

Happy burghers in lederhosen, smiling frauleins in dirndls and pigtails and wooden shoes, cottages draped in swastika bunting.

She was squashed into one of those Salzburger dirndls that you're supposed to buy several sizes smaller than your actual measurements.