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Comfort
of Wooden Shoes
Wooden shoes last
forever, are very comfortable wearing
A very safe
protection for your feet
Wooden Shoes for your
Gardening and Walking on Grass
Nothing
is so nice as walking
in the free nature.
The great atmosphere outdoors makes you feel happy. But the
problem is that your shoes become soon wet inside. You can of
course wear rubber boots but these are not comfortable if you
have to wear them for few hours.
A
unique solution: wear Dutch wooden shoes. Many Dutch wear them
and they are using them for decades. If you like our tulips, our
cheese and windmills , you will love our wooden shoes. Dutch
clogs are the best safety shoes for gardeners, farmers,
horsemen, workmen and everybody else who needs safety shoes to
protect their feet. Warm in winter and cool in summer
time.
The
finishing touch of the making of a wooden shoe is, of course,
the decoration. Sometimes the decoration is only a painting
sometimes also carved work. As art, the carved work in wooden
shoes and to paint on them has not disappeared yet. People who
do this kind of work don't do it for a living, but because they
like to do it, it's their hobby. The work of the loving amateur
leads to an other "hobby", the "klompendanskunst"
(a dance on wooden shoes), and to the wearing of costumes. It's
true that people in some places in Holland still wear their
costume and their belonging to wooden shoes daily is like a
natural, spontaneous thing.
But a lot of costumes are already in a museum, no one still
wears them. And the wooden shoe with decoration is going to be
only in a museum to look at, too. The valuable wooden shoes
decoration process is going to belong to a disappearing
folklore.
The
wooden shoe, in it's shape like our days, was since the late
Dark Ages worn at a lot of places in Europe. Here and there
people still wear wooden shoes, the most in Holland. Especially
because of the swampy ground of Holland, and also because there
was a lot of good wood (willows and poplars) in Holland. The
wooden shoe kept on being popular for a long time everywhere in
Holland. Even when the watertight boots of rubber were designed,
people kept the wooden shoe, because it was so easy to use. Of
the 3 million wooden shoes which are made yearly, a big part of
them are destined for tourist seats. In lots of large souvenir
shops the wooden shoe is a striking element. And at some places
there is a teaching workshop were wooden shoes are made by a
real, old-fashioned artisan, like there were thousands of
earlier. Because decennia, even some ages, ago the wooden shoe
user made his wooden shoe himself.
Wooden
shoes goes back to middle age and became a symbol of Holland
such as skates, windmills & tulips
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