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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 256389, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, wonderful! And Peranakan slippers aren&#039;t just any old slippers, but minutely beaded:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcTUujakvjtdCKr5rAsFr9saNvsSu6cF9Ze9CeRGMqGOwUyrBoFf&amp;sp=8855a46f3b380cf34c951c6c970ab7fc&amp;anticache=694038" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These would have been worn with a &#039;buketan sarong-kebaya&#039;, a Dutch design with bunches of flowers, worn by Dutch colonial, Peranakan and Dutch Indonesian ladies:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.ixquick.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQpBzcMzhliLfIVjbjqABJ76TfRk770Rpj4nUmaTEWWrSvTkfhnRw&amp;sp=c729dd575684fb2c4733bf77f27c6962&amp;anticache=511766" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I think I said it before in another thread, the Nyonya Kebaya style was inspired by Dutch colonial ladies, who adopted and adapted Javanese dress in the tropics.</p><p>Many Javanese fabric designs were restricted to certain social groups, so Dutch women made their own designs, in order not to offend anyone. Those were worn by Peranakan women as well.</p><p>I have no idea how this lady still managed to look so extremely European in her sarong-kebaya:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Portret_van_een_echtpaar_waarvan_de_vrouw_in_sarong_en_kabaja_TMnr_60044183.jpg/412px-COLLECTIE_TROPENMUSEUM_Portret_van_een_echtpaar_waarvan_de_vrouw_in_sarong_en_kabaja_TMnr_60044183.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The dress was even taken to The Netherlands, here is a 50s photo in a very Dutch street:</p><p><img src="https://www.modemuze.nl/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg/public/wysiwyg/tm-33004415.jpg?itok=2WZgABjs" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A detail of my buketan kain, on top is part of a matching 1930s kebaya, both with flowers. A kain is a wrap-around skirt made of a flat piece of fabric, a sarong is tube shaped skirt, kebaya is the Javanese style shirt:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]79617[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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