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Volendam is one of the towns
at the IJsselmeer which today has retained its own costumes.
Not that everyone is still in traditional costume on street, but the
phenomenon is not rare (yet).
Shop staff dressed in traditional costume and musicians deserve from
tourists who arrive by coach to Volendam.
The Volendam national costume is the best known Dutch national costume
and has a significant role in advertising and promotion Holland. Often
is it considerd the role of "national" costume of Holland.
The white hat (or a hul) by many considered as typical Dutch national
costume, is actually only worn in the village of Volendam at Amsterdam.
Already at the end of the 19th century, then in Volendam costumes and
setting were used, studied and published abroad. The region to the
current Ijsselmeer became the tourist attraction of the Netherlands.
Even today you see people walking around in Volendam in their
traditional dress,
especially on Sundays.
It is fair to note, however, that nowadays the costumes worn mainly by
souvenir sellers.
Because Volendam is an old tourist center, the costume of that place
abroad as typically Dutch experience. Eventually the Dutch themselves
have taken that cliché.
Girls in Volendam hat rarely pause in brochures, guides or texts which
refer to the Netherlands.
From Volendam you can easily reach Marken, to which in 1957 was an
island with a ferryboat.
There you can also see many people in their traditional clothes.
The women also wear a white hat, but it looks different, much smaller
and less noticeable.
The components of the traditional costumes are also each have their own
meaning.
The national costume for women, you can see the color, if she married or
single, and whether they are light or heavy mourning or not in mourning.
The men are usually dresses in black. The clothes are not commercially
available, but today is still made by the women themselves.
Not only sewing is a chore, with the Volendam cap is sizing a nice job!
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