Traditional Costume

Mostly people live in sabah were Kadazan Dusun people. Generally the trimmings and embroidery on the kadazan costume are simple and diginified in comparison with other ethnic group. The men's jacket and trousers bear some chinese influence . There are three different style of blouses for the womwn. One is a blouse with short sleeves worn by young ladies. Another is a blouse with three quarter sleeves worn by middle-aged for daily or casual use. The third one is worn by elderly women and female ritual specialists during ceremonies.

TEXTILE

Basic material : Black commercial fabric slik or velvet for ceremonial occasion, cotton for daily wear.

COSTUME OF WOMEN

Sinuangga blouse with short sleeves and round neck worn by younger women.Sober embroidery along the opening for head and arm and along the seams at the sides and along the middle of the bck: red, yellow and cream cotton yarn.Main stitches : sinusuk bulus(chain stitch) tantop (flanel stitch) . A flanel stitch technique is also used to make binuunsi a narrow band weaving in red and yellow looking somewhat like shoelace.

SINOMPUKUNG

Blouse with three quarter sleeves . No embroidery. Usually worn over the sinuangga like a jacket when the wearer gos out the house , such as visit a friend. Nowadays, The sinompukung is often embroidered and worn by older women as a blouse instead of as a jacket as in the olden days.

KIHONGON

Blouse with long sleeve, worn by elderly women and female ritual specialist or bobohizan during ceremonies . The embroidery is similar to the one on the sinuangga

SIMIS"CHEMISE"

A white cotton underblouse. Sometimes just a white kerchif is tucked into the round neck.

TAPI'

Long cylindrical wrap-skirt, formerly of plain black cotton. Nowadays often enlivened with siring : gold trimming , running over the hips, in front of the skirt, crossed by another band of trimming from the waist down.

Information details >> http://www.scribd.com/doc/31193715/Pakaian-Tradisional-Etnik-etnik-Di-Sabah