ASEAN HIVE Community Challenge #157: Traditional Textile in Indonesia

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This week's challenge really made me open an old album, because it's been a long time since I wore traditional textile. That's because traditional textile is used to celebrate special days, and while living in Jakarta I didn't attend an event that required me to wear traditional clothes.

Indonesia has many traditional textiles, one of which is kebaya. Indeed, the most famous is batik cloth. But talking about my favorite traditional textile, modern kebaya is the one I like the most.

As I mentioned earlier, people nowadays wear traditional clothes on special occasions. Back then, I wore Kebaya—as a top, and batik cloth bottoms were at graduation ceremonies. Yup, at my thesis defense and graduation, I wore kebaya and batik cloth. I like kebaya because it has many styles that we can create. Approaching graduation, I used a tailor to make the kebaya that I had been dreaming of. You can see in the left and right photos, both kebaya are my favorite kebayas made based on my own designs. It may look simple, but I love the tile material and embroidery.

from old gallery

The photo on the left with a green kebaya and batik cloth is the moment of my college graduation examination. I designed the kebaya so that it can be used for various events. Meanwhile, the photo on the right is a kebaya in my favorite colors—pink and blue. I wore it to attend a wedding. This kebaya does not use batik cloth, but rather satin cloth. I designed it for semi-formal events such as weddings.

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