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One popular fashion in Germany was to wear a Bavarian jacket, often with lederhosen, instead of a suit. At first reserved to Bavaria, after World War II the style beconmes more common in other parts of Germany. The border of the collar and the embroidery typically is in a dark green. More specific details on jacket styles are not yet available. The German language term is "„Tegernsee“.
One popular fashion in Germany was to wear a Bavarian jacket, often with lederhosen, instead of a suit. At first reserved to Bavaria, after World War II the style beconmes more common in other parts of Germany. These styles have not, however, become generalized German styles. Most Germans will readily idebtify them as Bavarian not German. Some German readers have even complained to HBC to insist that these jackets and related clothing be idebntified as Bavarian and not German. I think that perhaps Lederhosen have become more widely accepted than the jackets and hats.
More specific details on jacket styles are not yet available. One very destinctive German style was the Bavarian jacket. The border of the collar and the embroidery typically is in a dark green.
They were often worn with lederhosen, but not always. Another garment garment was an Alpine-styled cap. I'm not sure what the German term is for the caps.
A HBC reader asks us, "My question has to do with this subject. Is HBC familiar with a German jacket style called "tergense", and I am not sure I
have spelled this correctly. I believe this is a jacket style named after a particular geographic area in Germany, though I am not sure. I did a couple different searches
on the internet, varying the spelling of the word "tergense", such as "turgense", "tuergense", "turgency", etc. and I even though it might be spelled with a "d", so I tried
"durgense", or a few variations of that word. I had worn this style of jacket with my brothers when I was very young, even though we are fully "Americans", but my
mother had a flair and style in clothing us when we were young. Now I am trying to find out how this word is spelled. Can you offer any help?" A HBC reader writes, "The jacket your reader used to wear was a TEGERNSEE JACKE. Tegernsee is a lake and a village of the same name in Upper Bavaria. The German word "See" means "Lake" in English. Sometimes it also means sea, as in Nordsee (North Sea) or Ostsee (Baltic Sea)." A German reader writes, "„Tegernsee“ certainly is right. Such jackets have a special name in South german dialects, „der Janker“, a woolen Tracht-Jacket. In Southern Bavaria and Tyrolia in Austria elder adult men wore still such „Janker“. Hunters like to have such „Jankers“."
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