Baju Kurung
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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.
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.
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.
