This 'baju panjang' or jacket is tailored from block printed Indian trade cotton from Gujarat. It has a stylised design of cream, blue and yellow elliptical flowerheads surrounded by leaf motifs, against a rust 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.
