Bavaria’s musical pants
p2pnet.net news:- “There’s nothing quite like sitting in a Munich beer garden on a sunny summer day sipping on a fresh liter of Helles,” says German magazine Der Spiegel. “The locals in their lederhosen at the next table complete the image of traditional rusticality.
Right : ) Nothing like it …
— until their leather pants, “start ringing.”
Because these leather pants sport live buttons to control an mp3 player and cell phone, says the story, pointing out they were revealed at the recent tech convention CeBit in Hanover.
“The manufacturer, Londonfrey, began with traditional lederhosen, but replaced the usual deer-antler buttons with five buttons that control an MP3 player,” says The Archbishop of Canterbury on his MySpace blog, going on:
Londonfrey’s [the maker] Tectile line also includes a jacket with ‘fully integrated anti-insect capabilities.’ Weird.
Bavaria is an inebriated land of yodeling chocolatiers, the perfect place to combine absurdly traditional clothing with technological gadgetry. The actual motto for Bavaria is “Laptop and Lederhosen.” Many beer gardens offer wireless Internet.
Tourists generally assume that all Germans are like Bavarians. In reality, Bavaria is the Texas of Germany, the only region where you will find large sections of the populace shit-housed on lager and wearing lederhosen.
Maybe the musical britches should be called ‘liederhosen,’ though.
“Lederhosen (’leather trousers’ in German; singular: ‘Lederhose’) are knee-breeches (knickerbockers or shorts) made of leather,” says the Wikipedia, adding:
“The word Lederhosen is frequently misspelled and mispronounced in the English language as ‘leiderhosen’ (literal German meaning: regrettably-breeches) or ‘liederhosen’ (literal German meaning: song-breeches) and should rhyme with ‘fader chosen’.”
Also See:
Der Spiegel – Is That an MP3 Player in Your Pants …?, March 22, 2007
blog – Lederhosen with a twist, March 23, 2006
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