Tracht / Traditional Costumes

(Please see <http://www.volkstanz.at/Trachten/Trachtenliste_Oesterreich.html> as well.)

As far as I know - please tell me, if I am wrong !! - there is not so much information about traditional Austrian costumes online.

Especially pictures are heavyly asked for but I can just point to the several resources which are listed below.

A lot of people is asking for information about traditional clothing, however, I can just offer the resources below and hope that the contacts will be - if not a solution - at least a help in your research.

Please let us (me and the readers of this page) know if you have found unlisted resources.

If you have special questions I can put the question on this page as well. If you want ... ;-)

Additionally I can translate my German pages into English, if you tell me, what page (the URL you'll find in the upper right corner) or snipped of German information you mean.

However, I am just a dancer ... ;-)

PLEASE NOTE:

The following information shall give you some pointers to information about traditional Austrian clothing and it could help if you'd like to purchase such a dress or make it yourself.
Unfortunately I myself can not send you patterns and I do not sell these dresses, since I am just a dancer who has collected some information about Austrian folk dancing.
However, if you get further information during your researches, or if you have a specific question which is not covered by the following hints, please tell me and I'll put it on this page. THANKS!

Some German words ... ;-)

Tracht = traditional costume
Wien = Vienna
Styria, Oberösterreich, Niederösterreich = Austrian provinces
Anzug = suit

Information about traditional Austrian costumes you can get from:
(Please tell me, if these organisations could help you and I'll put your remarks onto this page, if you want.)

Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde (having email)
Bund der Österreichischen Trachten- und Heimatverbände
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wiener Volkstanzgruppen, Trachtenreferat
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Volkstanz und Heimatpflege in der Steiermark: 200 color slides about Styrian costumes.
Niederösterreichisches Heimatwerk

Thanks to ANGEL GOMEZ <ctdomingo@zaragoza.net> for having reported the following contacts [Nov. 1998]:

Volkskundemuseum
Klostergasse 16
2340 Mödling
+43-2236/48-759.

Ethnographisches Museum Schloss Kittsee
Batthyßnyplaty 1
2421 Kitsee
+43-2143/2304

Salzburger Landesinstitut für Volskunde
Mühlbacherhofweg 6
5020 Salzburg
+43-662/80 44 6402 (or something like this ...)

Literature

patterns = "Schnittmusterbogen", "Schnitte" (??)

"Zur Trachtenpflege in Wien". A free folder by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wiener Volkstanzgruppen, Trachtenreferat.
Franz C. Lipp: Oberösterreichische Trachten, Folge 1 - 5. You can order it via the Landesinstitut für Volksbildung und Heimatpflege in Oberösterreich.
Folder "Niederösterreich-Anzug" (a free folder) by the Niederösterreichisches Heimatwerk
Hilde Seidl: Niederösterreichische Trachten. One of the most comprehensive information about Lower Austrian costumes.
Christl Schöffer, Hannelore Rosenberger: Trachten aus und rund um Wien. Ein Werkbuch (mit Schnittmusterbogen). Leopold Stocker Verlag. ISBN 3-7020-0500-5.

Other Resources

Gauverband Nordamerika !! GREAT PAGES !!
THE HISTORY OF COSTUME by Braun & Schneider
Trachtenvereine in Bayern

Trachtenbörse

Wer Trachten weitergeben oder verkaufen will ...

Shops for traditional clothing

If you want to simply buy a "Tracht".

Another idea ...

Instead of buying a traditional clothing it could be a practicable way (especially for people from abroad) to buy the instructions for making a specific traditional costume and ask a local tailor to manufacture it.

These instructions are available and the material you can get from several shops.

Trachtennähkurse

Z.B. die Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wiener Volkstanzgruppen veranstaltet regelmäßig Trachtennähkurse. Diese Kurse beginnen typischerweise im Herbst.