People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1893 — Old-Fashioned Dutch. [ARTICLE]

Old-Fashioned Dutch.

In Ilolland the people of the towns have moved with the world and changed their fashion of dressing as the years wen 1 , on. But in North Holland, and away from the highways oi travel, the people still wear the costumes their ancestors did when thet settled New York. Perhaps the for eign air comes principally from th* sabots and caps. The sabots are universal—men, women and children wearing these queer wooden shoes Caps are unending in their diversity It has been said that the women of every town in that country hare their own peculiar style of cap. Down in Schcvingen the close muslin cap, the bright, plaid shawl worn as a bertha, the very white, whi \c aproa and the clean print dress are really not so unlike what a tidy workwoman wears anywhere else in the world. In the winter the neat Dutchwoman wears a picturesque black short cloak lined with a bright red. B’e all enjoy praise which we do not hear, and resent contempt? 1 * hicli wo do not see.