Title
Jacket
Year/Period
second half of 19th century
Region
South Sumatra
Dimension
Gross measurement: 139 x 168 cm
Accession No.
2011-00107
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kip Lee
This 'baju panjang' or jacket is tailored from block printed Indian trade cotton, most likely from Gujarat. It has a dark red, dark green and blue chequered design with fine wavy lines in black, white and yellow.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.
