Did traditional outfits in Germany really show this much cleavage or was it something invented by a beer company in the 1970s to shill Oktoberfest?
Did traditional outfits in Germany really show this much cleavage or was it something invented by a beer company in the...
Luis Clark
Dominic Hernandez
What do you think
Christopher Martin
do you really think in catholic Europe women were going around with their tits hanging out?
Bentley Kelly
breast weren't seen as sexual in early modern Europe
en.m.wikipedia.org
Bentley Cooper
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Zachary Foster
That's because decollatage are not about breasts
Wyatt Rivera
>Gowns which exposed a woman's neck and top of her chest were very common and non-controversial in Europe from at least the 11th century until the Victorian period in the 19th century. Ball or evening gowns especially featured low square décolletage designed to display and emphasize cleavage. During that long period, low-cut dresses partially exposing breasts were considered more acceptable than they are today; a woman's bared legs, ankles, or shoulders were considered more risqué than exposed breasts.
it dowsn't even matter. Europeans didn't sexualize breast like people do today.
Benjamin Kelly
Grayson Cook
Tits were not a huge deal in Europe before Victorian prudery set in during the 19th century. Queen Elizabeth was said to have often worn sheer dresses, apparently she still did it past the age of 50, as there is a story of an English courtier complaining about the distasteful sight of her sagging old milk bags.
Jason Ward
They didn't and even today they most of them don't show that much cleavage.
Stuff like in your pic came up in the 90s and is only worn by whoever explicitly wants to show cleavage.
Oliver Brown
From what I understand, dresses were typically designed that the breast could be easily pulled out of them if necessary to feed babies.
Joshua Phillips
Of course not. Just 50 years ago, showing knees were controversial
Brandon Wilson
The high point of prudery (in America at least) was the last quarter of the 19th century up to WWI, this was when the social reform movement was at its peak and laws were being passed to curb alcohol consumption, prostitution, and birth control (cf. the infamous Comstock Laws). Before that time, birth control devices were legal and fairly easy to obtain.
Then after WWI, the flapper generation rebelled hard against their elders' anti-sex mentality.
David Miller
Oktoberfest is nearly as bad and awful as St. Patrick's Day in terms of bringing out morons who claim to be 1/64th German.
Hudson Brown
No. This is a traditional dirndl. The Oktoberfest beer girl/boobs variant is called a mini dirndl and it only goes back to the 1980s.
tl;dr OP ist ein Idiot
Jose Hernandez
Maybe in stankmark.
Wyatt Gomez
Your bantz skills need some work.
Adrian Moore
Told you.
Evan Fisher
all about oktoberfest and bavarian culture is fake
Alexander Bailey
I guess it's been sexualized like the french maid outfit
Julian Smith
That's ok, 90% of Americans think Bavaria=Germany anyway.
Colton Hall
Clearly a guy who lives in a part of Germany that doesn't have as good of a marketing/tourist bureau as Bavaria.
Christopher Ward
The real thing is kind of bland desu.
Bentley Smith
lal
Lucas Richardson
well duh it's a maid outfit
Luis Rodriguez
In other news, IRL nurses don't look like Tracey Lords.