dirndl

Among the outfits displayed are a pink tulle dress designed by Molly Goddard, a clown costume and a Bavarian dirndl dress and pig's mask combination.

Servers at the Bavarian Inn wear dirndls or lederhosen.

“We have to tell them that Bavarians don’t always wear a dirndl and lederhosen,” said Andrea Orr, who works at the military exchange store in Grafenwöhr.

The specially brewed beer started flowing at midday at 54 pubs with locals in traditional lederhosen and dirndls sitting at spread out tables and, where possible, outside.

The beer garden opens at noon through Sunday; a “lederhosen and dirndl fashion contest” is held at 5 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, and specials on Jagermeister run all night Friday.