The people in Austria tell a story of their emperor Charlemagne that he once was out for hunting with his knights. He saw all his knights dressed in their best costume showing off their wealth. The emperor was dressed in simple cloths like that of peasants. He was very sad to see his knights...

Several native cloth clubs and societies referred “Volkstrachtenvereine” to encourage the conservation and renewal of conventional German clothes. Called as “tracht” (or plural “trachten”), at present it denotes any shape of pastoral or customary clothing of...