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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
So is this offensive?  It's cultural appropriation.  It's a "sexy" take on the traditional dress of the native people of another country.  A culture that still exists, and a people that still wear it.

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It's certainly tacky and I'd side-eye if she let her 7 year old wear it, but in this case it doesn't have the "punching down" element of dressing up as a generic Indian girl. [/quote]

It is absolutely punching down if you know anything at all about traditional German dress.  First of all, it's a bastardization of the actual outfit, which isn't remotely sexy.  Then it's based on something from a very specific region of Germany, and there are dozens of forms of traditional dress, most of which have to do with religious celebrations like weddings and funerals.

It's ignorant to think otherwise. Just because Germans really don't care what Americans do with it doesn't make it any less tacky.

"Was stoert es die Deutsche Eiche wenn die Sau sich daran schuppert?"   :mrgreen: [/quote]

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