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Night pants

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  • Fig. 17: Studio portrait of Ernst Peter Drissen on Java ca. 1876. (UB Leiden collection)
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These trousers are batik trousers for men (fig. 17). Although the name indicates that these were worn as sleeping clothes, they were often worn within the private sphere of the home by Dutch and Indo-European men in the tropics. The Indonesians themselves also wore these trousers in public.