Mother Hubbard Dress is a long, wide, loose dress with long sleeves and a high neck. Intended to cover the skin as much as possible, it was introduced by missionaries in Polynesia to "cultivate" those whom they consider half-naked wild people.
Although the rest of this Victorian has disappeared elsewhere in the world, it is still worn by Pacific women, who have turned it into brighter and cooler outfits, using cotton sheets, often printed in brightly colored flowers.
Name and design vary. In Hawaii, is it called a holocaust? . There, the descendants, muumuu, are very similar, but without yoke and rail, and therefore more easily made. In Tahiti, his name is ? ahu tua (royal dress, in the sense of colonial kingdom); now, ? ahu m? m? r? ? au (grandmother's dress) is used. In Samoa and Tonga, the design has taken the form of two pieces, with a classic hubbard mom's blouse (long, wide, loose with puffy arms) over ankle long skirt, called "puletation" and "puletaha," respectively. In Marshall, the name is wau ( [??????? uuuu?] ), from the Hawaiian island name of Oahu. The missionaries who introduced him in the Marshall Islands came from O ? ahu. In New Caledonia, these dresses are referred to as mission cloaks (Mission Gowns). New Caledonian women wear this dress while playing their typical cricket style. In Papua New Guinea, this form of clothing is known as the blaus meri , which on Tok Pisin means a woman's blouse. This is considered a formal local attire. In the 1960s and 1970s many women in Tarawa, Kiribati and some beautiful women wore clothes known as Mother Hubbard. While the lower part of the body is covered with lilitro (lavalava) or skirt, the upper half is worn by a very loose, low-necked short blouse, short enough to show a bunch of meat at the waist. The latter is usually worn without underwear.
In India and most of South Asia, this dress is referred to as Housecoats . Indian women wear these dresses as comfortable clothes at home, especially around only family members when they do not expect the company.
Writer W. Somerset Maugham calls this outfit many times in novels and short stories about the Pacific. This was also referenced by John Steinbeck in his novel 1939 The Grapes of Wrath . It is also mentioned in the lyrics of the 1953 musical fantasy film The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T a film written by Theodor Seuss Geisel Dr. Seuss.
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