The daily costume
The gents a blue/white striped blouse with a red handkerchief. The rest as the sunday constume.
The women a short cotton jacket with lap and short sleeves. A blue/white checked apron, that is starched and ironed and folded in regular blocks.
With this costume no "knipmuts" was worn but a "troelamuts". Also no jewelery was worn.
The rest as the sunday costume.
Sunday costume
The sunday costume, also called "kistentuug", was worn when they went to church, weddings or funerals.
The men wore a black suit. There was little decoration on it. Sometimes only a watch with a chain.
Furthermore, the men wore black wool socks in white sandpapered cloggs, a black cap on the head and a "goastok" in the hand. The handle of the "goastok" was usually decorated with ingenious wicker-work of horsehair and goosefeathers.
The women wore a black skirt, with underneath many petticoats and thorough long knickers of white cotton.
Typically Enschede are the coloured jackets. In the rest of the region, women wore black jackets.
Women wore, just like the men, black socks, white sandpapered cloggs and on the head the "knipmuts", of which the capbells of gold or silver were attached.
Jewelery was often given to women when they reached the age of 18 years or when they got married. Red coral and other jewelery was not worn as much in our region as it was in other regions.
The "knipmuts"
The most beautiful of the costume is the "knipmuts", with capbells attached. The "tail" is made of (Brussels) lace. This was an idication of how rich someone was. The more lace, the richer that person was.
In the second half of the 17th century, the "cornedcap" was designed in Paris. This was worn by wealthy people and became the fashion.
The Dutch women didn't like the loose lace and, for the sake of order and neatness, they ordered the loose lace with starch and thread. Around 1820, the cap was common in entire Overijssel and Gelderland (two provices of The Netherlands) by the peasants. They combined it with their own skirts.
Then the name "knipmuts" was first used. From that time on, changes were made gradually, resulting in slight differences in the "knipmuts" in towns.