Since I was a little girl I dreamt of going to Holland, seeing the tulips, and buying clogs. Well, unfortunately, when I finally did go to Amsterdam, it was too late in the summer for tulips, but I was determined to buy clogs. I wanted to buy real clogs, the kind that real Nederlanders buy, because I'd learned that the majority of clogs are sold to the Dutch, and not tourists. This was easier said than done, however, since I was only staying in Amsterdam for two days and I doubt that many people in Amsterdam were walking around in clogs. So eventually I had to give in and go into a tourist store for clogs. I wanted plain wooden ones, but I had to settle for painted, white with blue designs, kind of like Delft pottery, which cheesily said Amsterdam all over them.
Make sure you try the clogs on though--the sizes are not really uniform, as are carved out of wood after all. They weren't expensive at all, and though everyone made fun of me at first, by the end of the trip after I'd worn them a few times, everyone was so jealous! Don't miss out, buy some clogs!