Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-08
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Picturesque Giorics of Enshionubi
Gnrb in the SuIus.

Picturesque Giorics of Fashionable
Gnrb iu the Sulus.
Correspondence circulating among Uncle
Sans watcrland in the orient are gradually
giving the home guard glimpses OF the pic
tueSuue natives who are about TO be
moulded into American citizens by the
usual process Most interesting of the many
tribes is the Moros over whom the sultan
rules for 5000 Mexican plunks per month.
Their history and mode Of life may well be
left for further consideration They will
not get away. What is Of immediate concern
is their sartorial tendencies THE Moros
dress is a riot Of color" reports a corre-
spondout of the New York Sun, "and both
men and women have a notion OF ft that
would make a Filipino gasp particularly IL
he happened to be the tailor who was asked
to contrive 1t for one of his customers In
stead Of the loose, almost open camisa, with
wide. flowing sleeves, such as the Filipino
women wear, the Moro women wear waists
in which there is not an inch Of superiluous
material They put their spare cloth into
their trousers, which are wide aud long and
gaudy. In the market place they sell the
cloths from which they make trousers to
souvenir hunting visitors, who find them
very fine for decorative purposes A piece
large enough for one trouser leg that was
sold to one Of the Pennsylvania passengers
was two feet wide and four long 1t is Of
flmy silk dyed in seven different colors. The
Moro lady who contemplated making her
self pair of trousers out of it and its mate
had very vivid notion of color. She caught
up q little bunch at one end and sewed it.
Then she dipped in pot of brilliant purple
dyestuff. When she ripped out the sewing
the piece which had been all white at the
start was dotted here and there with purple
spots. Then she gathered up a band of it
four or five inches wide and sewed that
fast, so that she could dye no more than
that narrow band, and soaked it for a while
in deep wine color. When she ripped out the
threads which had held the little bunch in
place there was a narrow strip Of white
between the wine and purple. She sewed
again and this time the dye was orange;
then again and tried bright green. Then
there came a strip Of lemonyellow and
then more of the deep red. She had gath
cred the cloth from the middle each time,
so that there was a little bunch at the last
that was still white. 1t did not extend clear
across the strip and was not wide enough
for a band, she chucked it into the purple
pot again, but this time it did not get an
even soaking and came out blue and purple
in spots and streaks. On the whole, 1t
might fairly be called somewhat loud. Some
of the women prefer skirts, similarly bright
colored, to trousers. Some go barefoot and
some wear slippers in the Filipino fashion
None Of them wear any headdress. Some |
times, when they mean to be particularly
fetching, the women take a bolt or two Of
stuff that looks like cheap mosquito netting |
and fold it into long loops and throw the |
whole thing over one shoulder as a soldier |
carries his blanket roll 1t is usually solid !
color, blue or green or red or yellow. The |
either wear the same sort of thing |
or go naked.