Colonial settlers disciplined kin who ‘went native’ by adopting local dress and food.

Evidence

And in hushed whispers (“please, Papa, don’t dare tell anyone what I say, you know what rumors can do”), she’d write of her unkempt kin, the Lucassen women who went barefoot, ate appalling (local) food, and disapprovingly, she felt, policed what she would do or say. She in turn had contempt for their Indische ways. They were no longer oriented to Europe, kept inadequate distance from colonial customs, tastes, and dress, wore their sarongs out like bedclothes throughout the day. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1514

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the ‘epistemic anxieties’ project — dress and food as markers of epistemic allegiance between Europe and colony.
• ADDENDUM: The barefoot Lucassen women policing Suze echoes the immodesty-panics essay’s logic: dress norms as class and identity boundary policing.