“Well, few of us are blessed with flawless complexions such as yours, so if you want to go au naturel, that's fine by me.”

He's back and better than ever.

That the santri live in a boarding school where they are being supervised around the clock enhances the power of the kyai.

As white understockings, which may easily have been completely hidden, also occur, it is possible that the well-dressed man often wore three pairs of stockings. Roelof de Man — always a standard of elegance in Cape terms — had twelve pairs of white understockings and fourteen pairs of overstockings, including examples in green Naples silk, pearl-coloured English silk, ash-grey wool (sajet), black English silk, red serge, and white linen. While Ensign [Pieter] Evriard runs him a close second with five pairs of white understockings and thirteen pairs of overstockings in a rather similar range of colours and materials.