Leather was used for hundreds of years to produce trouseres, because it is a robust material. However the trousers were always changed according to the fashion. The origin of today's "Lederhose" was a clinging trousers, which reached just over the knee and was worn by the upper class. The people livng in the Alpine region used this model for their own trouseres. While the fashion changed the rural people kept the design as handy working trouser
At the beginning of the 19th centuary a enthusiasm for traditional costumes errupted at the Bavarian and Austrian court. The courts supported the national tradtional cutomes especially the "Lederhose". But the costumes were also deep-rooted in the population. They founded for example tradtional costumes associations. |