IT’S A TIE: We have counted the votes for the best-dressed at this year’s Brisbane Oktoberfest. See their look and check out every photo we snapped at the event.
With more colour and movement than you can poke a pretzel at, thousands have descended on the Brisbane Showgrounds for Oktoberfest 2022.
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Dirndls and lederhosen were the fashions of choice as the gates opened for Brisbane Oktoberfest and families poured in to enjoy German culture.
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Quest News nominated 30 individuals or groups who best encapsulated the Oktoberfest spirit with their German outfits-and now the votes are in.
FIRST PLACE TIE
These lovely ladies fought out a draw with the lads below.
SECOND PLACE
The runners up with these cute matching design outfits.
THIRD PLACE
FOURTH PLACE TIE
A well dressed pair enjoying a stein and the classic cheekiness of two fingers behind a head in a photo.
FIFTH PLACE TIE
A lovely couple plain and simple.
Stunning outfits by a pair of ladies who clearly put a lot of thought into their outfits. Enough to earn a three-way tie with the below trio.
Three ladies who almost played copycat with their lovely outfits.
Thirty-five thousand people were expected to descend on the Brisbane Showgrounds over the next two weekends for Brisbane Oktoberfest 2022.
Attendees will enjoy and participate in keg racing, tug of war and stein holding in the Bavarian Strongman competition, as well as pretzel eating, milking cows and more in the Miss Oktoberfest competition.
Not forgetting the amazing german food and locally brewed German beer from Burleigh Brewing.
Like any festival, fashion takes centre stage and many put great effort into their traditional German outfits.
The Festival Directors are a German/Australian married couple, Kim and Boris Zoulek.
They met at Oktoberfest Brisbane in 2005 and are now married with two kids.
The Wopertinger, Oompah Band, a homegrown band from Melbourne will play on the main stage in the 4000sqm Oktoberfest Tent every day of the event.
Oktoberfest started in 1810 as the marriage celebration of King Louis I to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen and has progressed to a celebration of German culture.
Brisbane Oktoberfest will run October 14-16, 12pm-midnight on Friday and Saturday and 12pm-8pm on Sunday.
Brisbane Showgrounds, enter via Gate 5, O'Connell Tce, Bowen Hills.
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