GUADELOUPE. - Type n°7, 1900-1920. Creator: Edgar Littee
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GUADELOUPE. - Type n°7, 1900-1920. Creator: Edgar Littee
The title of this French colonial postcard (GUADELOUPE. - Type n 7) exemplifies the standard naming structure that categorized " exotic" native subjects in the form of ethnic and occupational " types." Presenting the image subjects in this way conveyed the perception of them as " tame" colonial subjects capable of assimilation into European ways of life. The woman in this image wears a traditional, five-piece French Caribbean formal ensemble called a douillette, which is derived from the grand robe worn by early French settlers. Prior to Emancipation, dress codes required enslaved women to wear a chemise jupe, an informal bodice and skirt ensemble. Douillettes would have been worn by mulattas and free black women. Following Emancipation, black women resisted these old dress codes by donning elaborate douillettes that were previously forbidden
Media ID 22175844
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