Since the 16th century, traditional country dress began to develop as part of a system of order. Every trade had its distinctive work clothes and Sunday dress. Dresses, trousers, shirts, vests, and head pieces, worn for work differed from those worn for festive occasions and they differed from region to region. Dirndl dresses use synthetic and plastic products. Dirndl dresses use machine embroidery and laces.
Dirndl dresses make no such distinction.
Native dress uses ornamental trim very carefully, concentrating instead, on quality of workmanship. Dirndl dresses use showy ornamentation in profusion with quality of workmanship a secondary concern. The heyday of traditional dress was around the beginning of the 19th century. Instead peddlers hawked cheap, factory-made fabrics, which may not have looked as great, but were inexpensive. Fashion influences altered the typical characteristics of native dress until they disappeared altogether.