Oktoberfest Barbie comes with her own jugs
August 23 2004 at 10:57AM
A Munich designer has turned Barbie into a beer-swilling, sausage-eating German.James Waldron, head designer for the fashion label Rena Lange, has created a special Oktoberfest Barbie wearing an Alpine dirndl dress - complete with beer jug.
The dirndl is the traditional dress worn by women in Bavaria and the Alps. Waldron says he created the Mountain Dirndl Barbie based on Julie Andrews' character Maria in The Sound Of Music.However, he wouldn't say whether a lederhosen-clad Ken would be joining Barbie.
The once-off tiny ensemble consists of a hand-woven French tweed skirt, a red apron with Swiss embroidery and frilly blouse with a cotton gauze and lace decollete. It also comes with the metal stein - the lidded tankers Germans use for beer at the festivals.
She will wear the dress again at the Munich Oktoberfest, which begins on 18 September.The miniature is a preview of the life-sized dirndl that will be part of the Rena Lange 2005 summer collection.
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