What is the name of the white pajama-like clothing associated with Mexicans around the late 19th- early 20th century?
My Google-Fu is weak. So far, all the websites I have found just call it “shirt and trousers”.
If you search “Mexican peasant pants”, you get a specific style: Loose-fitting, cotton or linen, with a drawstring waist. But I don’t find any name for it other than “pantalones”, which just means “trousers”.
If you search “Mexican peasant shirt”, you get a wide variety of styles, most of them a lot fancier than what the peasants wore in the Clint Eastwood movies. But, other than “camisa” (shirt), the only name I find is “guayabera”, which is a 20th Century style.
The style, I don’t know; you’d have to link to an image. The fabric is probably just cotton. Why would it be anything else? Maybe linen.
This, from the 1910 revolution:
Loose-fitting white trousers.
Loose-fitting white shirt, worn with shirt-tail out.
huarache sandals
very wide-brimmed hat.
We usually call it “traje de manta”, for the fabric. Also, it’s not really usual attire anymore, so it’s not unusual to refer to it as a revolutionary costume (“disfraz de revolucionario”).
Regards
A related question: would the fabric have been bleached (“white”) or unbleached? And craft or factory?
1910, it could be either way: India still had a lot of unbleached “homespun” fabric.