Title
Jacket
Year/Period
early 19th century
Region
South Sumatra
Dimension
Gross measurement: 103 x 140.5 cm
Accession No.
2011-00098
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kip Lee
This 'baju panjang' or jacket is tailored from early European printed trade cotton with large rose sprigs in shades of red with blue leaves, roller printed. There are also motifs of plants in large pots.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.
