Title
Untitled
Year/Period
Early 20th century
Region
Bagan, Myanmar
Material
Accession No.
2013-00974
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
This is a group photograph of Malay gentlemen dressed in Western and traditional clothes in front of a house. The various styles of dressing reflect the variety of responses to colonialism through fashion.This photo is part of a large group of framed photographs which provides important visual documentation of the fashion, studio photography and lifestyle of Peranakans of the Straits Settlements and Indonesia in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries. Studio photography possibly reached Singapore and the region in the mid 1800s, and Peranakans were among the earliest clients.
