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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 12788667, member: 2844&quot;]The setting is colonial Indonesia, so in the Dutch East Indies.</p><p>The lady is wearing the sarong and white kebaya which was worn by nyonyas, colonial ladies. This style dress was worn until the early 1900s, even by ladies who were 100% European.</p><p>A sarong and kebaya on a European lady in the 1920s probably meant they lived in an outpost. As part of the &quot;Ethical Politics&quot; of the Dutch government there was pressure from the colonial authorities on European ladies to dress European, and leave this comfortable colonial style dress to indigenous ladies.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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