Immediately after the end of WWII, women were encouraged to make such a skirt by sewing pieces of fabric onto an (old) skirt: we would now call it patchwork. These patches came from old garments that had a deeper meaning for the wearer, from family, loved ones and friends. The woman then embroidered a new date along the hem every year, remembering May 5, 1945. The two skirts in the museum collection come from the two Van Willigenburg sisters from Amersfoort. Ria embroidered on the bottom edge of the skirt until 1951, her sister kept it up for a year longer.
The party skirts will - in due course - be on display in the permanent exhibition Eyewitnesses of the War 1940-1945 in the attic of the museum. Diary fragments, photos and museum objects provide an impression of how ordinary Amersfoort residents experienced the five years of occupation.
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