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Together with everything else that I have kept ( she won’t be pleased)

I have a little Dirndl with the white embroidered blouse and apron which my dds wore as children, later also my gd ( but only once or twice). I made sure I took photos and will keep it for my dd to decide what she does with it.

Almost certainly Norwegian.

Just found another with little brother!

My DD found this pic, not the full outfit, but can't find another as quite a long time ago.

I think that little outfit could have originated in any of a number of European countries, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland or a number of others. These little dresses were often worn with a little white blouse, in Switzerland usually embroidered.

Haven't read any comments yet, but I have a really lovely Dutch outfit, not too unsimilar to yours, that my DD wore when we lived there, have a picture somewhere. It has an apron and a winged bonnet; she wore with Dutch Cloggs. Don't throw it away Exdancer I'm sure one of your AC or GC will love to have it, even if they don't wear it, it's lovely. I'll post and then see if I can find the pic.

Oh, my! What a lovely thing you have. I wouldn't give it away or sell it without first trying to interest a responsible person in the family who might like to have custody of it. I mean, think about it. We look at ancient costumes now, and take the delight in them. If people did not collect things and keep them and hand them down in their families, how would we know what things were or where they were from? If nothing else, it could be donated to an appropriate museum. However, I might frame it and put it in my home and pass it down to someone in my will. It's so special!

But don't put it on Ebay until you have found out all you can about it. If you can't describe it accurately, you won't put the key words into the listing that people who would be interested in it are putting into the search engine.

Sell it on ebay?

Could you get advice from the V&A?

It's lovely. You need to get a professional opinion. I would take it to a museum if it were mine. You could email one of the London ones to ask about it. Maybe the V and A?

I think it's down to Austria 🇦🇹, Switzerland 🇨🇭 or Denmark 🇩🇰 or Norway 🇳🇴 as all their flags are red. So, no real help there!!

I agree with it being a Scandinavian national costume but not sure from which country. It could be Danish each town has their own costume so there are lots of possibilities
Your mother must have had a certain connection I would imagine, I would be intrigued to find what that was if it was mine. What a lovely costume to own. Do tell us when you discover where it originates from please

If you go into google images, you can upload your photo and compare - hopefully you'll get a match. I've done it once or twice, once a complete match, once a partial one. Worth a try!

Beautiful and to be treasured xx

ExDancer

I imagine thee must have been an embroidered blouse to go under that little jacket.
Also, its pretty grubby, the white lining to the jacket and hat is generally discoloured and I feel I want to wash it.
The local museum may be able to help - thank you to those who came up with that idea. I'm not sure the skirt is authentic, it has the feeling of having been made on a modern sewing machine as it has an elasticated waist and no placket opening.
Oh the questions I wish I'd asked my Mum before she died!

Don't wash it until you have sought advice . A museum may prefer to get it as is and do their own cleaning of it.

It's a Tyrolean dirndl! Lovely

Der Tiroler wird auch Jägerhut, Schützenhut oder Trachtenhut genannt. Er ist für seine charakteristische, spitzige Form bekannt.

It says the Tyrollean hat is known for its pointy shape a bit like in Exdancer's photo.

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It's the hat that has been bothering me and I delved a bit into German websites for more information. It was quite surprising that mostly the feather topped Tyrollean hats are worn by boys, so maybe there is a bit of poetic licence going on here by adding it to the girl's cistume?

You could try googling the national costumes of the various countries suggested. To me it looks Bavarian and far too nice to throw out.

Yes I agree with you it looks like Swiss outfit. If it’s old I’d take it to an antique shop myself because they might be more interested if you put on eBay etc it probably be a dealer that would buy it. If you go to a antique dealer they will tell you what it’s worth.

Grannmarie

Maybe Austrian, from the Tyrol ?

I thought Tyrolean too - mainly the hat gives that impression. Can’t see from the photo whether it has the traditional feather.

Looks lovely.

Oh, it came up blue in the final post!!