Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868-
Subjects: Women
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Cassell and Company, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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additions—e.g., with the addition ofa special head-dress of great splendour anda heap of borrowed jewellery. The hair, which is the chief glory of a Malay woman, is straight, luxuriant, glossy, and of a bluish tinge of black. Coiffures. ^^^ ^^ °^ *^^ ravens wing. Itis cleansed with limes, and isdrawn up, usually in a simple roU or knot, tied at the back of the head,and fastened with a gold dagger in the hairor with silver hair-pins. The bright j-ellowor red blossoms of the champaka, in a settingof the Malay womans night-black tresses,produce a briUiant and striking contrast,the effect of which is heightened by theseductive fragrance of the flower. Great hoods of palm-thatch, protectingthe head and shoulders from rain or sun, are met with up countr\-, andMiscellaneous , , , Fashions. S ^0° ^^^ strange palm- leaf umbrellas that open likehuge fans. Malays have as a rule barefeet, but wooden sabots are sometimes worn,and shoes have of recent years been coming 190 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS

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into fashion.In Patani andSingora, on theeast coast,where Siameseinfluence is nowparamount, thequaint butrichly-colourednational g a r- RESPECTABLE MARRIEDWOMAN OF KELANTAN. Wearing the broad sash (ksin lepas)about the breasts and skirt con-sisting of a flowered surong ofTrengganu make. ment of the Siamese, thepanmmg, is fairly generallyworn, and almost anv morn-ing the yellow-robed Samior Siamese priests may beseen going on their roundsto collect the alms of tliepious. The Negrito women, whenthey wear anything at all,put on wonder-ful fringed girdleswo\en from the

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