Cornstarch and the structure of the terno / Mark Lewis Higgins -- Message from the publisher / Ben Chan -- Foreword / Purissima Benitez-Johannot -- A history of hybridity / Mark Lewis Higgins -- The Philippine national dress: an overview / Gino Gonzales -- Glossary of terms / Gino Gonzales and Mark Lewis Higgins -- Fashionable fabrics: the mestiza dress from the nineteenth century to the 1940s / Sandra Castro -- Glossary of textile terms / Sandra Castro -- Glossary of nineteenth-century Philippine jewelry / Ramon Villegas -- 1860s: Portrait of the mestiza -- 1870s: Pathway of ideas -- 1880s: The image of Maria Clara -- 1890s: A sense of nation -- 1900s: Filipina moderns -- 1910s: The orient expressed -- 1920s: Rise of the butterfly -- 1930s: Sinuous lines -- 1940s: Destruction and reconstruction -- 1950s: The terno's "new look" -- Balintawak -- Maintaining and starching the terno sleeve -- The camisa and panuelo