Oktoberfest Suspenders

Description

Blue and white is the giveaway, the Bavarian flag colours that anyone at an Oktoberfest event will read instantly. Beistle makes these with metal hardware, and the trim carries white, brown, blue and gold. A multicolour option is available alongside the blue and white pair for anyone who wants the busier version. The look is built around the traditional Bavarian palette rather than around a printed graphic, so it works from across a beer hall.

The occasion is written on them. Oktoberfest itself, obviously, whether that is a beer hall, a street festival or an office party in October, but also stag parties, German-themed nights and any costume built on lederhosen. Worn with a checked shirt and shorts they finish an outfit that would otherwise need renting. They also work as decoration on a person, in the same way the rest of Beistle’s party range does, so a group can be kitted out cheaply and look coordinated in photographs. For a group they are the straightforward option. Half a dozen pairs take very little organising and give a table an obvious identity in photographs, which a rented costume rarely manages at the same effort.

Fit is one size and adjustable, which is what you want for something borrowed, shared or bought at short notice for a group. Metal hardware handles the adjustment. Given the setting these usually end up in, the fabric is easier to spot-clean than to launder. Because the fit is one size, there is no measuring involved, and the metal adjusters hold the setting through a long evening.

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