Jessy and Ricci in latex dirndls (Latex in public)

A dirndl is a Bavarian and Austrian traditional costume dress invented towards the end of the 19th century, and today is often considered a typical Alpine costume.

Dirndl is a diminutive of Dirn – the Bavarian-Austrian variant of High German Dirne – and in the corresponding dialects still in modern usage simply denotes a young girl (cf. also Low German Deern), while in modern usage the negatively connoted meaning “prostitute” (dysphemism) is associated. Until about the middle of the last century, Dirn was also the most common Upper German term for a maid employed in agriculture (High German Dirne was also used specifically for young women of low status and especially servants in domestic and agricultural work). Dirndlgewand is the term for garments worn by women referred to as Dirn. Nowadays, the term is often shortened to Dirndl.