Traditional Costumes Take Center Stage at Oktoberfest

Traditional Costumes Take Center Stage at Oktoberfest
Young participants ride a wagon in the Oktoberfest parade of costumes of folk and crafts associations on the second day of the 2018 Oktoberfest beer festival on Sept. 23, 2018 in Munich, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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Hundreds of proud Bavarians wore their finest traditional clothes on Sept 23 for the annual Oktoberfest costume parade in Munich.

Always held on the second day of the world’s largest beer festival, the parade is a chance for the locals to show off their best Bavarian costumes, or what’s known in German as tracht.