ANCIENT JAVANESE FASHION, A CIVILIZATION EVIDENCE.

In The History of Java written by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles and published at 1817, The Ex-Lieutenant Governor General of British in Java was said that native Javanese dress better than residents in western India. Most raw materials for clothing come from imported fabrics. Blue and chintz fabrics are imported in large quantities from West India. The rulers usually need a lot of shirt, velvet and other types of fabric to make jackets, pantaloons pants and other clothes. Usually the residents are well dressed. Dirty clothes are a disgrace, and they dress fancy when attending certain ceremonies. Although most people's clothing is relatively simple. Class grades in this country make a difference in the way they dress, and there are some clothes that are only allowed for noble families. The difference is also seen from the way he uses a kris.

The caste in Hinduism that at the time was adopted also influenced the way people dressed, although according to Casparis (1954) this caste regulation was not as hard as in India. It was divided the class of society into only 3. That is the Village Community, Nobility and Religious Figures.

In the Karmawibhangga reliefs at Borobudur Temple, it is seen that these three groups have different clothes patterns. For the general village community, men wore the lower part of their body to look like pants and were bare-chested, although they still wore cloth headbands, as did ordinary women, wearing cloth from the waist that hung below the knees.

While the nobility group, equipped themselves with jewelry and ornamental headgear, with a type of cloth that was better than most groups. While for the Brahmins, wearing a village people’s cloth, only wears a long cloth as a cover for the upper body and wears a better headgear.

We can find a discussion about Javanese ancient fashion in the educational banner in the HISTORY OF JAVA MUSEUM, even though it uses a similar name with the title of the book written by Raffles, but this Museum which is established on Jl Parangtritis km 5.5 Bantul Yogyakarta Special Region, not merely leaning his collection into the Raffles book.

The manager of the History of Java Museum itself hopes that the museum, which is equipped with Augmented Reality, Diorama and even facilitated with the Food Court and Open Stage, can be as comprehensive as the Raffles book.

This museum presents its collection chronologically with a fairly complete banner of information ranging from the history of Javanese civilization to a time that was not too past.

Visiting this museum means exploring the history of the island of Java with the support of the existing technology, quite pleasant to trace the history of a region with a little feeling involved in it.

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