The girl’s costume includes a colorfully striped skirt and a starched, peaked hat. The boy’s costume was the original boy’s costume for Tulip Time’s Dutch dancing, and was based on what ...

When Dutch dancing started, all costumes resembled a little Dutch girl known from a popular cleanser bottle. ... 18, donned the Zuid Beveland costume's stiffly starched white hat, ...

In true Dutch tradition, many of them wear the same costumes for years and then hand them down to the next generation. Nothing goes to waste, and everything is built to last.