HOLLAND, Mich. — Tulip Time is just around the corner. A big part of the festival traditions are the wooden shoes you see the dancers wear in the parade. The shoes are called 'klompen' or 'clogs' and ...

Wooden shoes have become a Dutch cliché—a symbol of the low-lying Netherlands’ past. Even their name, klompen (yes, the singular is klomp), has a fun and oh-so-Dutch ring to it. But it turns out that ...

Meet Holland’s most famous wooden shoemaker. Fred Oldemulders was born in 1898 near Laar, Germany, within a mile of the Netherlands border. There, his father was both a farmer and a “klompenmaker,” a ...

From peasant tops to flower crowns, it doesn't look like '70s inspired fashion is going anywhere this summer, and for me, nothing screams '70s quite like wooden clogs, the seemingly frumpy footwear ...

Editor's Note: This story was published in June 2020. HOLLAND — Did you know Holland once had a Wooden Shoe Factory? The business launched in the 1920s, when Chester Van Tongeren opened the Dutch ...