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Dutch Holland Middleburg with Hat for American Girl 18 inch Doll Clothes
Traditional Middleburg Dutch Costume with Hat for American Girl 18 inch Doll Clothes
 
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MIDDLEBURG DUTCH COSTUME with HAT--The supplier made and error and switched the Middleburg and Marken names. This is the CORRECT name for this item! Made to fit American Girl and Bitty Baby dolls.
You will receive:
  • Black blouse with white collar edged in eyelet ruffle and deep black lace ruffles at elbows,
  • Black skirt with multicolor striped overskirt/apron with floral bib. The overskirt goes all the way around and the bib ties with black ribbons at the neckline.
  • Typical dutch cap with long "wings" on either side in front. Cutecutecute!
This item also looks adorable with one of the nicest items in our store, realistic dutch clogs. You can see them peeking out from under Kirsten's skirt. Sold separately when we have them.

We were fortunate to be able to spend a month in Holland a few years ago. We certainly never could have afforded it if we'd had to stay in a hotel. We were able to sublet a small apartment.Our daughter was in high school and had a wonderful apprenticeship with a professional photographer in A'dam.

Unfortunately, one no longer sees women wearing the typical costume like this except for tourist events these days. Sigh....yet another wonderful piece of history being lost...

Middelburg (the correct spelling) is in the far southwest part of the country, on a finger of land that is almost an island, on the Atlantic side and across a little bit of water from Belgium.

Most people have grown up thinking the Dutch people were the only ones who wore wooden shoes. NOT! People did that all over Europe. The animals on the land belonged to the royalty, so most people were almost completely vegetarians and there wasn't a lot of leather around to make shoes. Wooden shoes were great because they kept people's feet dry.

Another interesting factoid about Holland: The Dutch people made a VERY difficult decision in the 1930's to close off their section of the North Sea. Most of us know Holland is very low (sea-level) and very flat. Most people lived along the coastline and made their living from the sea (herrings and anchovies especially). Any time there was a storm at sea huge areas were flooded and lots of people died. Closing off the North Sea to create the Ijsselmeer (say "eye-sel-mere" or ''ij'') meant it slowly changed to fresh water, changing the entire economy of the area. Then came World War II, which was not good to Holland. The Germans took it and kept it until it was freed again at the end of the war. High school kids learn about Anne Franke. We visited the hidden apartment. It was actually a lot larger than I ever imagined before I saw it. Of course, that story didn't end well...

O.K., back to business...


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