Wednesday, 4 November 2015

The Presentation

We finally presented our presentation about Malay Traditional Clothes on Tuesday(3rd of November). We wore various types of Malay Traditional Clothes such as Baju Kebaya, Baju Kurung, Baju Melayu and Baju Batik. We were very happy to end our research with this presentation because we ourselves had the experience to try Malay Traditional Clothes.

To conclude, we are glad that our MPU teacher, Mr. Irwan gave us the opportunity to do the research because we now know deeper about the history, arts and values about Malay Traditional Clothes.


Team Honeycomb with Malay Traditional Clothes on!
From left: Baju Kebaya, Baju Batik, Baju Melayu, Baju Kurung




Friday, 23 October 2015

Preparation for the Presentation

Last week our MPU teacher divided us into group and ask us to discuss what we want to do for the presentation. After our discussion, our group decided to do the Malay Traditional Clothes.


 We had find a time to stay back to divide the work to everyone so everyone will involve in the preparation for the presentation. Nessa were assigned to prepare the slide for the presentation. At the others member in the group were assigned to find the information for Malaya Traditional Clothes, that is Baju Kurung, Baju Kebaya, Baju Batik, and Baju Melayu.
We brought the Malaya Traditional Clothes that we had find to see whether the member of the group fit the clothes or not. In this picture, she seen satisfied with the clothes. ^^
This the Baju Kebaya that on of our member is going to wear on the presentation day. 

This is the Baju Kurung that one of the member is going to wear on the presentation day. 

Sunday, 18 October 2015

Importance of preserving Malay traditional clothes

The Malay traditional clothes that already existed have their own uniqueness and value of its own. These values are very important as it can distinguish between Malay traditional clothes from the traditional clothes of other cultures.

 The importance of preserving Malay traditional clothes 

 

1. The value of appreciating 

- The existence of these traditional clothes will eventually portray the value of appreciating where generation these days still can appreciate the rich Malay culture. They will learn on how to appreciate the culture that was continuously being preserved from generation to the next generation as they can get the opportunity to learn and appreciate it by themselves.

2. Enhance the sense of identity

- It is an important factor of capacity development.  Malay traditional clothes can shows the identity of Malay race. Many young people adore foreign cultures and know very little of their own roots.
Malay traditional clothes can only be seem nowadays in certain events and occasions. Malay men traditional clothing can usually be seen mostly at official functions, marriage ceremonies and Hari Raya Aidilfitri.

3. The meaning and value of Malay traditional clothes

-Traditional Malay clothes without off setting to the value and meaning of the symbolic and aesthetic
justification is important. However, there is no specific guidance about the rules or discipline that explains the meaning or concept. International fashion labels have become a major competitor to the
traditional clothing.

Hence,traditional clothes is also a mean of recording our culture for future generations. Every traditional clothes is unique and should be preserved.We should work together to preserve the beauty of cultural
clothes.


                  

Friday, 9 October 2015

Types of Malay Traditional Costumes

MALAY MEN COSTUME
 
Baju Melayu ("Malay dress or attire") is the general term for the traditional Malay costume for men.Specifically, the traditional Malay costumes for both men and women in Malaysia, are the Baju Kurung Teluk Belanga and the Baju Kurung Cekak Musang. But to differentiate between the male and female attire, the male costume is simply referred to as Baju Melayu while the female costume is normally referred to as the Baju Kurung

Baju Melayu

The man widely acknowledged as the creator of the male Baju Melayu, and the person who first popularized it in the 15th Century in the Malacca Sultanate is Tun Hassan Temenggong, the son of Bendahara Seri Maharaja Tun Mutahir.The Malacca Empire was enjoying its heydays during the 15th to early 16th Century until the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511. It was the strongest empire in the region then stretching from Sumatra in the south to Thailand in the north, and was a center of entreport trade, with traders from India, China, Middle East and Europe coming and sailing to trade there. With the influx of foreigners to Malacca, they also brought with them their own fashion styles. These eventually influenced the Malay attire, which combined the flowing loose fitting styles (robes) of the Arabs and Indians, trousers and pants of the Mongols and Turks, with the simplicity and elegance of the Europeans. And the Malay Baju Melayu was born.

  This dress for the male Malays is generally quite the same all over Pahang or Malaysia. It has the same simple design cut, with loose fitting being the accepted concept and fashion. The length of the shirt dress for the men is about the length of the person’s arm, and it is very loose fitting, widening downwards. 
Baju Melayu Cekak Musang
   This Malay male attire is worn either with a sarong or trousers in both the Baju Kurung Teluk Belanga and Baju Kurung Cekak Musang styles. As a traditional costume, however, this male dress is worn rightly with matching pants or trousers. The trousers are long, that is, they are worn up to the ankles, like the normal gentlemen’s long trousers. When thus worn with long trousers, the essential accompaniment for the whole attire is the samping. It is this that adds the extra elegance to the costume.

Baju Telok Belanga
    If the shirt, trousers and samping are worn in a similar colour, fabric or pattern, that is, in matching styles, then in Malay the style is called sedondon. The Baju Melayu is worn either in the style of "kain berdagang luar" or "kain berdagang dalam". In the "kain berdagang luar" style, the shirt is worn outside the trousers and covers part of the sampin. In the "kain berdagang dalam", the sampin is worn outside the dress and it covers the lower part of the shirt.Normally, the Teluk Belanga style is worn as "kain berdagang luar" and the Cekak Musang worn in the "kain berdagang dalam" style. In the Malaysian state of Johor, there is a style for the trousers or pants, called the seluar kiul. The pants are wide at the waist, tied using a piece of string instead of buttons or zip, and the pants, instead of baggy, become smaller down to the legs.

MALAY WOMEN COSTUME
BAJU KURUNG
   The baju kurung is a type of Malay traditional costume which is believed to be influenced by Arab, Indian and Chinese merchants. This Malay costume or baju kurung is the outfit of the whole Malay archipelago, namely Malaysia and Indonesia. The cut of today’s baju kurung is more sophisticated and the stitches are more intricate. The baju kurung was introduced during the reign of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johore.
The characteristics that differentiates baju kurung from other costumes is the long tunic with sleeves and the presence of pesak and kekek. The unique characteristics of the baju kurung include the hand stiching throughout the outfit known as sembat as well as the seam and heming. The neckline is stitched by hand using the tulang belut stitchings, inspired by the bones of eels.
BAJU KEBAYA
    Kebaya is a habitual blouse-dress combination for Indonesian females. The kebaya is also recognized in some Asian countries like Malaysia, Burma, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and Cambodia. It can be made from sheer material and worn with a sarong or batik kain panjang, or other traditional woven garment such as ikat, songket with a colorful motif. During the nineteenth century, and prior to the Nationalist movement of the early 20th century, the model of kebaya had enjoyed a period of being worn by Indonesian, Eurasian, and European women alike, with trivial style variations. In this time distinguishing class and category was important and produced variants of the basic set of clothes. Now we may appreciate the modern kebaya ( or in Indonesia called as model kebaya modern) that may be made of silk, velvet  and brocade.
    The baju kebaya may have two highest forms: the semi-transparent straighter cutblouse of the Java or Bali and the more tightly tailored Sunda kebaya. The blouse is generally semi-transparent and worn over the torso wrap. The skirt or kain is an unstitched material wrap around three metres long. The name sarong in English is erroneous, but the sarung (Malaysian accent: sarong) is truly stitched together to shape a tube just like a Western costume. In Indonesia, especially in Java, Bali and Sunda, the kebaya modern is generally batik which can be from natural stamped cotton to elaborately hand - painted batik tulis embroidered silk with gold thread. In several other areas of Indonesia such as Sumatera, Flores, Lemata Timor, and other islands generally use kain ikat or songket.
 

Traditional Malay Wedding Costume

Tuesday, 29 September 2015

History of Malay Traditional Clothes

Baju Kurung

A proven difficult to accurately about who is first to wear baju kurung. This occurs because the baju kurung in its original form has long been used by many people in the archipelago region. The early baju kurung was longer and looser, unsuited to the figure of Malay women. 

According to Judi Achjadi in the book "Indonesian Women's Clothing District" to state that the baju kurung was introduced in Indonesia by Muslim traders and Western India. This shirt has the influence of the Middle East such as cut-shaped neck Tunic, which forms the neck of the first shared by the Arab past.
According to Dato 'Haji Muhammad Haji Sulaiman Said in the book "Clothing Patur Malay" baju kurung clothes now come from Johor during the reign of the late Sultan Abu Bakar in 1800 in the Teluk Belanga, Singapore.

Malacca Malay Sultanate era, people have their own clothing, namely dress baju kurung Malay origin. Baju kurung is called tight and short. Tun Hassan became pioneers when he change the form of baju kurung to the original form of Malay clothes worn now.
By Mattiebelle Gettinger, baju kurung was worn by court dancers in Palembang and clothing has become popular in Indonesia in the 20th century.







Baju Kebaya

Kebaya dress is traditional clothing worn by the women of Malaysia and Indonesia. He done than gauze paired with a sarong, batik, or other traditional clothing such as songket with a colorful motif. Believed to originate kebaya rather than the Arab countries. The Arabs brought baju kebaya (the Arabic "abaya") to the archipelago of hundreds of years ago. Then spread to Malacca, Java, Bali, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. After the entry into force of cultural assimilation which lasted for hundreds of years, the clothing is accepted by the local population.

Prior to the year 1600 on the island of Java, kebaya is the only clothing worn by the royal family group there. During the Dutch colonial era on the island, the first European women wearing kebaya as Rasmi clothes. Every day, kebaya changed from only using mori fabric using silk with colorful embroidery. Clothes that resemble the so-called "mistress kebaya" was first invented by the Peranakan people than Melaka. They wear the sarong and beautiful beaded sandals called "shoe manek". Now, mistress kebaya is undergoing renewal, and also among women not famous in asia. Apart than the traditional kebaya, expert fashion is looking for ways to modify the design and make kebaya become something more moden. Kebaya is modified must be worn with pants jeans.

According to Denys Lombard in his book Java Nusa: Cross Culture (1996) Kebaya derived from the Arabic 'Kaba' which bererti 'clothing' and introduced by the Portuguese when they landed in Southeast Asia. Kebaya said diertikan as types of clothing (tops / blouse) used the first Indonesian women during the period of the 15th century or 16th Masihi. Lombard argument by analogy certainly thank especially the linguistic searches yet until now we still know 'Abaya' which means long tunic typical Arab. While others believe Kebaya nothing to do with clothing tunic women during kekasiran Ming in China, and this influence is transmitted after a massive immigration visited the peninsula of South and Southeast Asia in the 13th century until the 16th.





Baju Melayu

Baju Melayu is the general reference to the traditional Malay costume for men and it is said that the style has been in existence since the 15th Century. Actually it has two specific style names, the Baju Kurung Cekak Musang and the Baju Kurung Teluk Belanga.
The man widely acknowledged as the creator of the male Baju Melayu, and the person who first popularized it in the 15th Century in the Malacca Sultanate is Tun Hassan Temenggong, the son of The Malacca Empire was enjoying its heydays during the 15th to early 16th Century until the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511. It was the strongest empire in the region then stretching from Sumatra in the south to Thailand in the north, and was a center of entreport trade, with traders from India, China, Middle East and Europe coming and sailing to trade there.
With the influx of foreigners to Malacca, they also brought with them their own fashion styles. These eventually influenced the Malay attire, which combined the flowing loose fitting styles (robes) of the Arabs and Indians, trousers and pants of the Mongols and Turks, with the simplicity and elegance of the Europeans. And the Malay Baju Melayu was born.
The Malacca Empire was enjoying its heydays during the 15th to early 16th Century until the Portuguese conquered Malacca in 1511. It was the strongest empire in the region then stretching from Sumatra in the south to Thailand in the north, and was a center of entreport trade, with traders from India, China, Middle East and Europe coming and sailing to trade there.
With the influx of foreigners to Malacca, they also brought with them their own fashion styles. These eventually influenced the Malay attire, which combined the flowing loose fitting styles (robes) of the Arabs and Indians, trousers and pants of the Mongols and Turks, with the simplicity and elegance of the Europeans. And the Malay Baju Melayu was born.






Monday, 21 September 2015

Malay Traditional Clothes

Introduction :
       
       Traditional Malay attire for men is the baju melayu, a loose tunic which is worn over trousers and usually accompanied with a sarong called a sampin which is wrapped around the hips. It is also often accompanied with a songkok or cap. Malay women wear the baju kurung, a knee-length blouse worn over a long skirt. The blouse is long-sleeved and collarless, while the skirt, called a kain, has pleats on one side.A headscarf is sometimes worn with this. Another popular traditional costume is the kebaya, a more tight-fitting two-piece dress. This is often considered less formal. It is worn by the female flight attendants of Malaysia Airlines. Prior to the wide embrace of Islam, Malay women wore "kemban", which were sarongs which were tied just above the chest.
Baju Melayu
 
Baju Kurung
Baju Kebaya