22-03-2025
2025 Orange City Tulip Festival Extravaganza reveals costumes, parade marshal
ORANGE CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — The Orange City Tulip Festival unveiled the costumes for this year's event and who will be the parade marshal.
The festival held an extravaganza event at the Prairie Winds Event Center in Orange City on Friday with luncheon and program.
The Tulip Festival Steering Committee announced the 2025 parade marshal is Tom Hydeen. He's a dedicated volunteer of the festival for more than four decades.
Hydeen joined the adult Dutch Dancers in his early years of volunteering at the festival. He's become a fixture at the Tulip Festival. Hydeen spent 35 years either being backstage, in the orchestra, or directing the orchestra for the Night Show.
He also took on different roles the festival, including being a Pedi-cab driver, a bus tour guide, carving wooden shoes. Hydeen has also been a host on the horse-drawn trolley, a member of the Fietsen Zangers (Bicycle Singers), and an attendant of the historic street organ in Staatcentrum.
The 2025 Orange City Tulip Court will be wearing the authentic costume of Spakenburg, a fishing village located north of Amsterdam.
Members of the Tulip Court will have a kraplap, which is a starched rectangular cotton chintz fabric with a narrow-slit cut in the middle, worn over the shoulders. The kraplap is worn with a checkered scarf that is white stripes on red cotton fabric.
The costume also has a long plaid apron with wide folds in the waistband. Queen of the 2025 Tulip Court, Jaeyle Woudstra, will wear the formal version of the apron, with a wide band of plaid over her waist.
Members of the court will wear the Spakenburg hat and have a cloth purse called a zijzak, which is worn under the apron and skirt, but over the underskirt. The girls will also wear gold filigree earrings and bracelets, wear wooden shoes. Meanwhile, the queen may wear wooden or black dress shoes.
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