Wooden Shoes

My DW and I will be in Amsterdam for a pre-cruise visit next summer.

I was wondering if any of you have a suggestion as to where we might buy wooden shoes (clogs) while we are there? Where can we get traditional clogs, not the touristy painted ones?

Nobody in the Netherlands wears wooden shoes on a daily basis anymore really, especially not in a big city such as Amsterdam. You will almost only be able to buy them in tourist shops. Most who make clogs in Holland, even if in a traditional way, do so mainly for tourists.

I had a look at What to buy in Amsterdam and this is what they say about clogs:

Clogs & Wooden shoes - It's a typical tourist thing to do. Buy a pair of uncomfortable wooden shoes that you'll put away in a dark closet as soon as you're back home. But if you really want a pair, try Otten & Zn in De Pijp.

In case you get there, on Zaanse Schans, north of Amsterdam you have a choice of touristic and regular wooden shoes (klompen).

Often they also show how they are made.

You will not find anybody in cities who still wear them, but older farmers often do and of course in some villages they still sell them.

(even my kids had them when they were small, but then we live outside the city.)

http://www.dezaanseschans.nl/en/crafts/wooden-shoe-workshop/

If you are flying into the Amsterdam airport, they have wooden shoes in several shops...at least that did a few years back when I was there!