Indonesia - Malaysia - Singapore

1975 - In polyglot Paramaribo, capital of Surinam, a new face that may reveal Dutch, Negroes, Indonesians, Chinese, East Indians influences. These Surinam girls wear the presses of their grandmothers, a billowing swandoce of petticoats, cottons and kerchiefs. This is the kotto- Missie Dress of Surinam. Originally worn by the women slaves to keep the white men from seeing how pretty they were. (Credit Image: (c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans)

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19600104 Billowing Cottons Grandmothers Indonesians Influences Kerchiefs Kotto Negroes Paramaribo Petticoats Polyglot Presses Reveal Seeing Slaves Surinam

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