Things Seen in Holland
of Friesland, worn by the Queen, to the Volendam cap, with its well-starched cornettes, with which opéra-bouffe has rendered us familiar in England. It is on a market-day at Middelburg or at Flushing that the visitor can more especially feast his eyes on Dutch women be-jewelled, be-capped, and be-petticoated, or again at a kermis. A shock will come to him when he sees the gouden kap surmounted by a Parisian chapeau, from either side of which peep the kurkenkrullen. The wearing of these must on such occasions be looked upon as a tribute rendered to national sentiment by these devotees of “modernism.” In the winter of 1908 Friesland revelled in a skating carnival, at which were worn the garments of days gone by, and the revival of habiliments in vogue in the days of Holland's grandeur was a welcome and picturesque one. In the museum at
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