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This article explores José Rizal’s Noli me tángere as a site and source of rumination on clothing’s historical significance in the Philippines in the late nineteenth century. The characters in the novel represented various social types, whose clothes contribute to our knowledge of nineteenth-century men’s and women’s clothing and to the role clothes played in colonial power relationships, status competition among natives, and gender politics. Clothes suggested a period of ferment when colonial divides were being blurred in part by intermarriages and upward social mobility. Through clothing, the novel also showed how female body parts were sexualized and subjected to the male gaze.

* Dr. Coo's research was made possible through a grant she obtained under the Merit Research Awards (MRA) Program of the Institute of Philippine Culture and the research load she was awarded as SOSS Research Fellow by the Office of the Dean of the School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Ateneo de Manila University. This article was completed with support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754446 and Universidad de Granada Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund - Athenea3i.

This public lecture provides a colorful, visual overview of the clothing of men and women of varying ages, political positions and occupations in diverse contexts and spaces in nineteenth century Spanish Philippines.

Drawing from a wide variety of iconographic (tipós filipinos, letras y figuras, visual costumbrismo), textual (literary costumbrismo, novels, correspondences), and material (actual garments, textiles) sources, the first part presents clothes as social skin and examines the meaning of clothes in different social spaces and situations (e.g. tertulia, paseo, bailé, etc).

The second part focuses on the narratives that can be generated by looking into selected Spanish, French and German heritage or archival spaces.

The third part discusses how knowledge gained from researching about clothing in selected European repositories can be applied to today’s exhibition scenes and spaces, e.g. bodily, physical, literary, artistic, theatrical, production spaces, etc.

Dr. Stephanie Coo's public lecture was organized by ICOMOS Philippines and Intramuros Administration and was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754446 and Universidad de Granada Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund - Athenea3i.

Dr. Stephanie Coo's public lecture was organized by University of Cologne and was supported by the Office of the Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, Consul General Evelyn Austria-Garcia of the Philippine Consulate-General in Frankfurt and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754446 and Universidad de Granada Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund - Athenea3i.

Dr. Stephanie Coo's public lecture was organized by Ruhr University was supported by the Office of the Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, Consul General Evelyn Austria-Garcia of the Philippine Consulate-General in Frankfurt and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754446 and Universidad de Granada Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund - Athenea3i.

Dr. Stephanie Coo's public lecture was organized by Ruhr University and was supported by the Office of the Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, Consul General Evelyn Austria-Garcia of the Philippine Consulate-General in Frankfurt and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754446 and Universidad de Granada Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund - Athenea3i.

Dr. Stephanie Coo's public lecture was organized by Ruhr University and was supported by the Office of the Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, Consul General Evelyn Austria-Garcia of the Philippine Consulate-General in Frankfurt and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754446 and Universidad de Granada Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund - Athenea3i.

Co-sponsored, by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and the Philippines Embassy in Lisbon, the seminar provided an in-depth look at the important role the region played in forming a globalized world, and the cultural, trade, oceanic and people-to-people connections established during this period in history. The academic perspectives and critical thinking provided by 19 historians from various universities in Europe and Asia during the seminar provided a welcome opportunity to revisit historical archives and to reflect on the new evidences found. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Strategic Communications and Research Ernesto C. Abella who also attended the international seminar on behalf of the Department of Foreign Affairs, commended the organizers for providing a platform to promote and broaden academic discussions about the region in Southeast Asia by looking at Philippine history and culture, and the cultural role it played as a contact zone in the region. Undersecretary Abella added that, "the Philippines in Southeast Asia is highly dynamic and interconnected. It is home to a number of countries with the fastest growing economies in the world as well as the busiest trade routes where about US$5.3 trillion worth of goods pass the waters yearly. Just as it was centuries ago, the Philippines today is in the center of all these flows and connections." Portuguese political scientist and anthropologist who has done extensive postgraduate research on Philippine anthropology Dr. Armando Marques Guedes was the seminar's keynote speaker, and also presented his paper entitled "The Philippines, Portugal and Southeast Asia. Drawing connectivities." He gave a comprehensive overview of the diversity of Southeast Asia, and outlined its connectivity and centrality as a center of political, economic and cultural linkages, both in the past and in the future. ADMU Associate Professor Ambeth Ocampo presented the Philippine National Quincentennial Committee's commemorations on the 500 anniversary of the Magellan expedition in 2021. Professor Ocampo explained that the quincentennial commemorations will be an opportunity to revise and revisit the way in which this event has been represented and constructed from a Filipino point of view. He also showed various paintings and illustrations of the Battle of Mactan portrayed by Spanish and Filipino artists to the audience to support the various historical interpretations. During second day of the seminar, ADMU's Dr. Stephanie Coo gave a presentation on the correlation of clothing and civilization in the 19 century Spanish Philippines. She showed illustrations of the evolution of 19 century clothing in the Philippines, and argued that clothing during this time period were used as tools for self-invention on the premise that Filipinos covered with many layers of clothing were civilized. The seminar ended with a keynote speaker from Dr. Bernard Lavallé from the Complutense University of Madrid, who examined the different perspectives of the hispanization and the subcolonial character of the Philippines through Mexico who played a role during the Union of Crowns from 1580 to 1640. Ambassador to Portugal Celia Anna M. Feria hosted a cocktail reception on the first day of the international seminar, where Filipino food and delicacies were served. The two-day seminar was well attended by academicians, students in history, and members of the diplomatic corps and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The international seminar on the Philippines is a first of a three seminar series. The next seminar will be held at the Pablo University in Olavide in Seville, which will be followed by a seminar at the Ateneo de Manila University. END DFA Undersecretary Ernesto Abella gives his remarks on importance of the international seminar as an avenue to promote Philippine history and culture.

Dr. Stephanie Coo's public lecture was organized by University of Cologne and was supported by the Office of the Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, Consul General Evelyn Austria-Garcia of the Philippine Consulate-General in Frankfurt and by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754446 and Universidad de Granada Research and Knowledge Transfer Fund - Athenea3i.