Things Seen in Holland
part of Brabant, and Volendam, in North Holland, are the places to hie to on Sundays or on vegetable market-days. The women of Volendam have a weekday and a Sunday dress, but it is practically the same costume, the difference lying in the colour and striping of the outer skirt—generally one of the seven which they drag about.
The national costume, except on market-days and festive occasions, is a curiosity even in that very Dutch city Amsterdam; and Markeners, Volendammers, islanders from Urk, and Frieslanders, dressed in their special garb, will excite almost as much curiosity in the Kalverstraat as they would in the streets of London. Zeeland, with Walcheren, North and South Holland, and Friesland, are about the only places where the local costume is in daily use. To describe the wearing apparel affected by
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