Traditional Clothes

Sundanese traditional clothes

1.      Sundanese Traditional Clothing for the Ordinary People

Clothes for men consist of trousers, salontreng clothes, and ikat logen as headgear. Compression pants are calf-length pants and are equipped with leather or tie fabric.

Shirts with clothing tops with simple stitching models and combined with poly sarongs attached to the body. The last equipment is tarumpah sandals or wooden sandals.

2.      Sundanese traditional clothing for the middle class

This middle class has wealth, but does not have nobility. Included in the middle class are traders and merchants.

For men, completeness consists of white powder dress with straight buttons in the middle (takwa jacket), subordinates of batik cloth, terompah, beubeur, and headbands. The accessories worn are chain gold watches that are hung in a breast pocket.

Meanwhile, women wear batik cloth, beubeur, scarves, and slippers or writing cloth. The color of clothing needed by middle-class women has no restrictions, all colors can be used.

3.      Sundanese traditional clothes for nobles

Sundanese traditional clothing for nobles uses black with gold thread embroidered. The fabric used is velvet fabric. This rule of choice only applies to royal family nobles.

For men, clothing consists of a black gold velvet coat at the edges and ends of the sleeves with the same motif length. The dodot cloth wrapped around the waist to the knees has a broken machete pattern.

4.      Sundanese traditional clothes for weddings

There are 3 types of traditional clothes for weddings according to Sundanese customs, namely bridal dress, bridal dress singer, and bride and groom's foam. The differentiation of the three is the details of clothing and dress worn. The most can be seen as a whole is the shape of the bed, the details of the decoration on the clothes, and also the accessories that are installed.

5.      Sundanese traditional clothing for official events

Sundanese traditional clothes for official events are almost the same as traditional clothes for the nobility. Instead of wearing white, the color of clothing for men is a color that tends to be dark.

For women, plain-colored kebaya clothes are decorated with embroidery and bebat cloth as subordinates. Other features are beubeur, camisole as underwear, karembong or scarves, and slippers that are similar to kebaya.

Examples of Sundanese traditional clothes