This 'baju panjang' or jacket is fashioned from hand painted, mordant and resist-dyed cotton, with floral motif in red, blue, purple and white against a red ground.The Malay 'baju panjang' is a sort of long, loose coat once popular with both men and women. It relates to the Indo-Arabic banyan worn by Gujarati merchants, which came to be popular with Europeans. Malay popular tradition holds that the baju panjang was introduced with the arrival of Islam in the Malay World which required a more modest form of dress.
