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Many developed in the 18th and 19th century derived from the "good church clothes" most people wore. And in the 19th century it got weird as such clothing items were rapidly commercialised and mixed with romanticism. The Dirndl is a good example of this, as it was invented around the 1880s and was derived from the types of dresses worn by certain bavarian peasants - but it was adopted towards the tastes of the urban bourgeois. Additionally it got heavily promoted and thus the rural folks "readopted" it as well.