Title
Jacket
Year/Period
c. 1725 - 1750
Region
South Sumatra
Object Type
jackets (short coats), baju panjang
Material
cotton (textile), resist, mordant (surface preparation material), dye
Technique
painting (image-making), resist dyeing
Dimension
Gross measurement: 89.7 x 145 cm
Accession No.
2011-00087
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Kip Lee
NLB Type
Costume
This ‘baju panjang’ or jacket is fashioned from hand painted, mordant and resist-dyed cotton. It has a finely detailed floral pattern and leaves with feathered edges in red, blue, purple, yellow and green 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.
