This past spring, daughter was doing a final master's class in Berlin and invited her father to join her for some German travel when classes ended.

As her fraternal family is heavily deutsch, the offer was accepted and we had a lovely, memorable experience. Great sightseeing, accomodations, vibe, food, beer, people...'felt oddly "at home," despite being a 2nd generation American.

To the purpose of this thread however; one personal goal was to seriously investigate knee-length Lederhosen and if appealing, bring a pair home. As it happens, daughter now has a full dirndl and her Vater a splendid Lederhosen.

We were in Munchen (Munich) during Carnival and a bunch of locals wore Lederhosen, tho nowhere near the number who chose (ironically, "America's pants, blue jeans") costumes or street clothes.

On the streets and towns of southern Germany, only a handful of local men wore Lederhosen, but they were not seemingly noticed as unusual.

Submitted for your thoughts and comments, sitting at the keyboard in Lederhosen with German folk music on the CD player. (no kilt, or pipes, today; Americans have this tendency to veer away from ethnic purity, begun by our grandparents and parents...and we certainly "do not always" endevour to keep the gene pool ethnically linear....)