If I remember correct you are the resident german? If I am correct, what are your thoughts on this costume. If I remember right Gloria is either American born or came over very young...
Here is a nearly same 40 buck costume which I am sure you can find cheaper. Includes "riding hood" in the title.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Womens-L...t-Fairy-Tale-Costume-Sizes-6-18-/321122162784
Do you think she is trying to... I dunno capitalize on a German fetish or is she just clueless?
The fun thing about Dirndls is, they are often considered a national girl's costume of Germany, when in fact they are a local Bavarian dress closely associated with the Oktoberfest in Munich. AFAIK Oktoberfests have spread throughout the world, you can find similar fairs in Texas and California, complete with girls dressing up in Dirndl-inspired costumes. These party dirndls are usually only loosely based on traditional Bavarian Dirndls, most of all they are far more revealing. This, plus the fact that they are associated with beer and partying gives them a "naughty flair" which Gloria is trying to use as a stylistic choice in her video, with limited success (like I said, her body movements and facial expression reveal how uncomfortable she feels).
BTW "Dirndl" originally means "girl" in Bavarian dialect.
Probably just clueless.
IIRC, most of our fairy tales came from the Brothers Grimm, who I believe were from Germany. In that case, it would make sense for the characters in their stories to wear traditional German outfits. If you google "sexy Goldilocks costume", this is the first result returned, which (other than the color) is actually pretty similar to Glo-Glo's Red Riding Hood costume:
http://www.buycostumes.com/p/807368/goldilocks-costume-for-women?CAGPSPN=pla&REF=KNC-BC-PLA-Google&gclid=CjwKEAiA18mzBRCo1e_-y_KLpXISJACEsANGsdFGYrB33AyHxxHgF-cakiZRbcLM39jU9UudzSfEXxoCFqnw_wcB&kwid=productads-plaid^141212190735-sku^242180@ADL4BUYCOSTUMES-adType^PLA-device^c-aldid^76279496655
As for how Glo-Glo could confuse Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood? Home-schooled class valedictorian and all that...
Yes, the majority of well-known fairy tales are from the Grimm collection. The Grimms didn't invent these stories, they rather collected folk tales from all over Germany which had up to that point been never been written down but communicated orally from generation to generation.
http://www.grimmstories.com/en/grimm_fairy-tales/index
There are a number of exception, though, that is, not all popular fairy tales are folk tales written down by the Grimms. E.g. "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling" are artistic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen (that is, he invented these himself).
http://hca.gilead.org.il/li_merma.html
http://hca.gilead.org.il/ugly_duc.html
Personally, I have always preferred artistic fairy tales over the folk tales, because I find the latter to be crude and uninspired -- barbarian stories, if you will. The Russian folk fairy tales are an exception, though, these have a mysterious, mystical flair about them -- probably due to influence from the pagan tribes of Siberia.
http://www.oldrussia.net/vas.html