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The enaguas of the women are plain white; their belts have a foundation of white cotton, but raised designs of black wool are so thickly worked upon them that the white is quite inconspicuous. The camisas and quichiquemils are generally white, with a vertical band of red, and with a few animal figures.
MARQUESA. Harás muy mal ... que si no se pide a las amigas cuando no se tiene que llevar a la boca, no sé yo cuándo se ha de pedir ... y yo lo he sido tuya, Matilde ... no de las íntimas ... pero ... pero siempre te he querido bien ... ya lo sabes ... y te lo voy a probar ahora mismo ... allí tengo en casa cuatro docenas de camisas de batista sin hacer del agua, y te las enviaré....
"No, gentlemen," observed Pecson with his clownish grin, "to celebrate the event there's nothing like a banquet in a pansitería, served by the Chinamen without camisas. I insist, without camisas!"
Beneath this the children run and play, climbing, jumping, and tearing the new camisas in which they should shine on the principal day of the fiesta.
Their filmy camisas and pañuelos are painted in sprays of blossoms or embroidered in silks and seed pearls. On their gold-columned necks are diamond necklaces, and ropes of pearls half as big as bird's eggs; while the black lace mantillas are fastened to their dusky heads by jewelled birds, and butterflies of emeralds, sapphires, and diamonds.
As I've said before, the town was hostile, and this attitude did not help matters much. He couldn't get the school moneys out of the Tesorero an unmitigated rascal but that did not make much difference, for he had no pupils anyhow. He couldn't speak a word of Spanish; no one in the town, of course, knew any English he must have been horribly lonely. He began to wear camisas, like the natives.
And how many women have left their embroidered slippers in those waves of mud! Then there might have been seen repairing those streets the lines of convicts with their shaven heads, dressed in short-sleeved camisas and pantaloons that reached only to their knees, each with his letter and number in blue.
These five months had to be caught up in some way, so every month his salary, depreciated ten per cent by the change, had gone across the waters. He wore camisas and no shoes, he stole bananas. And his value, shoeless, camisa-clothed, was sixty dollars a month. He was just so much capital. He had to be careful of that capital.
This antesala, as they call it, gave on the sala, or drawing-room proper, which was a large apartment lighted by a hanging chandelier of cut glass, holding about a dozen petroleum lamps. Two rows of chairs, facing each other, were occupied by ladies in silken skirts of brilliant hues, and in camisas and pañuelos of delicate embroidered or hand-painted piña.
The ball differed little in its essential features from other balls, save that, owing to its being Christmas Eve, the Filipino men, in accordance with some local tradition, discarded the usual black evening dress, and wore white trousers, high-colored undershirts, and camisas, or outside Chino shirts, of gauzy piña or sinamay.
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