Wearing a gunny sack to the Oktoberfest

The mere thought of what terrible clothes - Landhausstil! - some people will be wearing is enough to turn me off the Wiesn. These egg-shell or off-beige colored blouses and shirts made of canvas with stencilled letters and buttons about as big as the wearers' brains combined with Lederhosen-hot pants (with frilly undies coyly peeking out if you're a lady) and climbing boots are such a travesty of what used to be sensible clothing for working in the stable or out on the fields! Of course, you shouldn't wear your best silk Dirndl to a place where you are likely to get beer spilled on yourself or sit in a pile of sick&sawdust, but you don't have to look like you swam through the manure pile to get to the tent.
Rant over.

I just got a killer black/gray landhause/not dirndl but linen trachten dress at a second hand shop for 40 euros - it looks great, has a bit of velvet in the bodice and if someone spills beer on it I won't cry.

Bleh - those beige things have been around for about 10 years - icky.
I know someone who shortened a beautiful dirndl to an above the knee length - and only wore it once - what a shame. She had to go out and buy a whole new kit (or maybe that was the reasoning behind it??)