STUDENTS’ SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM

USAMV MIEADR 2017

Folk costumes in Holland
SPATARIU IULIAN-GABRIEL & MANOLACHE PATRICK
MIEADR IMAPA GROUP 8114
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of
Bucharest, Romania
59 Marasti Blvd, District 1, 011464, Bucharest, Romania

KEY WORDS: common , puffy , overlapped , religion .

ABOUT
•Wooden shoes, head dresses and puffy
trousers were once worn in countless towns
in Holland.
•While they are no longer a part of the
common dress code, you can still see these
traditional costumes in towns like Staphorst,
Bunschoten and Spakenburg.

VILLAGE-SPECIFIC
•Many villages had their own costume but
the styles often overlapped. Women often
wore a ‘kraplap’, a piece of white fabric that
covered the chest and part of the back.
•Men generally wore ‘klepbroeken’, pants
with the front covered by a fabric ‘flap’.

PICTURED IN FOLK COSTUME

CONCLUSION
•You can still see these traditional costumes in traditional costume.
towns like Staphorst, Bunschoten and
Spakenburg.
•Many villages had their own costume but the
styles often overlapped
•Much of a person’s costume was determined
(at least in part) by his or her religion or
occupation.
Associate Professor Cismaş Suzana
•Much of a person’s costume was determined
(at least in part) by his or her religion or
occupation.
• Fishermen usually wore different apparel
than farmers, and Catholics wore different
clothes than the Reformed.
•These days folk costumes generally serve as
a folkloric attraction for tourists, so you can
have a nice photograph taken of you wearing a
REFERENCES
http://www.holland.com/global/tourism/article/fol
k-costumes.htm
https://agnautacouture.com/2013/09/08/dutch-
traditional-costume/
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS