http://www.free-city-guides.com/munich/

and i don’t realy think the Traditional Headdress is really shaped like an Cowboy hat, more like a mix between cowboy hat and an typical mormon headdress but in green and in velvet or felt.

And I’ll also tell something bad about the Oktoberfest from the view of someone from Munich:
It’s not as traditional, as it used to be, you can’t “chill out” on the bavarian way anymore, the waiter/waitress won’t let you sit there if you aren’t drinking all the time. An also the prices are have Skyrocketet, ~8 Euro is about 10 $ for one liter beer, if you buy beer in a liquor Store you get 4 times the amount and even more

Guess thats because the good ol’ brewerys got bought up and are now under more capitalistic influence.

It’s much more pleasent to go in a simple beergarden with your friends than going there and have to wait eternal until you get a good place, even with good connections…