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Wooden shoes are worn as an essential part of the traditional costume for Dutch clogging, or klompendanskunst. Clogs for dancing are made lighter than the traditional 700-year-old design. The soles are made from ash wood, and the top part is cut lower by the ankle. Dancers create a rhythm by tapping the toes and heels on a wooden floor.
Dutch clogs, for everyday use. The red painting on top makes the clogs look like leather shoes. It is a traditional motif on painted clogs. A klomp (Dutch: ⓘ, plural klompen [ˈklɔmpə(n)] ⓘ) is a whole-foot clog from the Netherlands. Along with cheese, tulips and windmills, they are strongly associated with the country and are considered ...
Since wooden footwear was a hand-made product, the shape of the footwear, as well as its production process showed great local and regional diversity in style. At the beginning of the 20th century machine-made wooden footwear was introduced. After WW2, in particular, wooden shoes became uncommon. They were replaced by more fashionable all ...
Historically, clogs were wooden shoes that provided your feet with protection from all sorts of weather. Today, many variations of clogs exist (like the flat clogs we saw earlier). However, clogs ...
Wooden shoes are worn as an essential part of the traditional costume for Dutch clogging, or Klompendanskunst. Clogs for dancing are made lighter than the traditional 700-year-old design. The soles are made from ash wood, and the top part is cut lower by the ankle. Dancers create a rhythm by tapping the toes and heels on a wooden floor. [23]
Pattens were worn outdoors over a normal shoe, had a wooden or later wood and metal sole, and were held in place by leather or cloth bands. Pattens functioned to elevate the foot above the mud and dirt (including human effluent and animal dung) of the street, in a period when road and urban paving was minimal. Women continued to wear pattens in ...
A bizarre and relatively new tradition in the Netherlands has it that, every 29 November, Dutch families should sit down for dinner with a pancake on their heads in order to wish one another “a ...
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