Lederhosen with iPod controls

Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 9, 2008 2:17 AM | permalink

German company Lodenfrey have displayed a pair of high-tech lederhosen with built-in iPod controls for when you want to rock out during your ambulatory yodel-wanders.) Link (Thanks, Marilyn!)

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#1 posted by starcadia , April 9, 2008 2:50 AM

Talk about culture clash. If this site wants to promote enlightened technology as a means towards cultural progress I feel it's only logical that it try to steer away (no pun intended, honestly) from promoting primitive practices such as leather goods. What's next, news of aliens landing in steampunked ships? Unlikely.

I'm available for proofreading, too, actually, and would make a small fortune from your submissions, Cory, were I paid by the error. Oooooooo. :D

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#2 posted by LaHaine

, April 9, 2008 3:27 AM

No, we Germans are not wearing this. Maybe some Bavarian backwood people do, but I haven't seen any yet.

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#3 posted by indiecognition , April 9, 2008 7:56 AM

I will do the German dance for you, it's fun and gay and tra la la...

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#4 posted by LogrusZed , April 9, 2008 7:58 AM

Is that a giant cocklump in his pants or do leather pants just look that way?

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#5 posted by sunbreaks , April 9, 2008 10:15 AM

Now I really have seen everything. Time to go poke out my eyes...

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#6 posted by Takuan , April 9, 2008 10:27 AM

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do they do a morris hanky?

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#7 posted by wackyvorlon

, April 9, 2008 9:46 PM

Didn't Boing Boing post this years ago?

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#8 posted by JulianR , April 10, 2008 4:28 PM

@2: We Bavarians aren't "backwood people", thank you very much.

Not all Germans are Bavarians, and many Bavarians don't see themselves as Germans.

@4: Sure, we all have huge... No, the pants look like that.

Also, the jacket shown in the linked page does definitely not "fit" with the trousers. I looked up some links with pictures for all of you out there in the world:

The german "Lederhose"-entry in Wikipedia has more pictures than the english one: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lederhose

This "traditional Bavarian clothes"-entry as well: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachten_in_Bayern

An old photograph of how a real Bavarian looks like:
http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/webpages/Bayrische%20Tracht%201a.jpg

This is the typical taditional apparel today, it may be worn anytime and won't cause any looks, because it's normal. Most people wear jeans and other "normal" clothes, but if you show up in traditional clothes, it's completely okay. Maybe not at a business meeting, but at most other occasions:
http://www.pbase.com/bmcmorrow/image/31778128

You can watch a typical Bavarian event at the following link, I filmed this myself: the setting up of a maypole. Notice the many not-backwood-people in traditional wear working together to get the pole up, completely manually:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=8567833008057250756

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#9 posted by Takuan , April 10, 2008 5:13 PM

Just one moment please. How are we supposed to distinguish Bavarians if they run around wearing Tyrolean hats?