Clever Cross Country Saying

East Indies. Colonial fashion.

With limited at first and then with abandon, nineteenth-century Europeans explored and then exploited the Africa and Asia. Rich in spices and very productive for trade, the East Indies, especially, attracted thousands of adventurers who competed for honors and international markets. In the heyday of the colonial period, 85% of Southeast Asia was under the management or control of the French, Dutch or English.

A settler family on his plantation. Sumatra, 1897

The delights of a new life

In terms of dress, the Dutchman takes instinct and natural experience. In this house of the East Indies man always wears pajama pants and a white cotton robe. Her bare feet tread on shoes without heel. From the aesthetic point of view, it is disastrous, but the costume is cool. Antoine

Cabaton

Historian of the West Indies, 1911