Traditional Bavarian Shirts

Many different traditional Bavarian shirts (Octoberfest-shirts), shirts with strings, frill shirts, grandpa-shirts, farmer-shirts, shirts for children and trousers.Here you find traditional shirts like the Bavarian people wear it at Oktoberfest. 

Hemad (Bavarian); in German shirt (Hemd) originates from the Old High German term Hemidi, which means cover.

The ancestor of the shirt might has been the Roman tunic.

At first the shirt was found as underwear in the time of the Anglosaxons in the 15th century. The shirt was closed at the front with short sleeves. A short time later there were shirts with long stiched sleeves, the shirts were worn by the aristocracy and bourgeoisie as adequate clothing. In the 16th century the upper part of the shirt became visable and a quilling was added. The quilling was the ancestor of the collar. Until the 20th century the collars were separate and the shirt could be opened by buttoms.