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Fancy your dog in a traditional Bavarian Dirndl costume? Bavarian designer Hildegard Bergbauer, who creates Dirndl dresses for women, also makes and sells Dirndl outfits for home pets and horses.Since 2004, Hildegard Bergbauer designs and tailors about 30 various models of traditional Bavarian-style Dirndl dresses, Lederhosen (leather trousers), loden coats or hats for dogs. She has installed a flat for her dogs with beds, tables, chairs, pictures, carpet's and windows with curtains.
She was inspired to create the outfits by watching stage shows as a youngster.
Customers from several countries, USA, Japan, Austria and mainly from homeland Bavaria, buy the dogs costumes. The dogs wear the costumes on their back side, a Dirndl costume costs around EUR 65, the leather trousers a minimum of EUR 80.
The pets (L-R) spitz dog "Spitzerich", the pincher "Rocky" and chihuahua pinscher named "Zorroline", wearing traditional Bavarian style Dirndl costumes designed by their owner German dressmaker Hildegard Bergbauer sit outside her house in Hailing, southern Germany
Dressmaker Hildegard Bergbauer sits with her pets (L-R) spitz dog "Spitzerich" and the pinscher "Rocky" inside of a specially designed dogs flat, which she will use for shooting movie in her workshop 
The spitz dog "Spitzerich" wearing a collar with sausages and a traditional Bavarian style Lederhosen costume designed by his owner dressmaker Hildegard Bergbauer
Chihuahua pinscher dog named "Zorroline" wearing a traditional Bavarian-style Dirndl costume
German dressmaker Hildegard Bergbauer "dresses" her spitz dog
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