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RETROSPECTIVE SURVEY ON MALAY TRADITIONAL CLOTHES
Clothing refiects the status of the wearer, From the historicalpointof view, the appearance of clothing is dealing a lotwith the textiles. Exquisiterich texturesor woven with gold and silver threads forroyalty and the rich, The function a land long-lasting fabrics were for the working class. In the post-modem era, the traditional clothing had reformed aggressively in the Malay culture. The strong infiuence and adaptation from Western had given them a different kind of social documentation in dressing the traditional clothes. Presented here is the attire that has stood the test of time- Bciju Kitrungand Boju Klebaya. Lately,young and old females wear these typed of clothes as daily wear. These researches were aimed to identify the common typed of traditional clothes worn among the females<br>during working. It is also to identify females view on clothes as pleasurablestate or desirestate. These<br>researches were evaluated by using various analyses such as dernographicanalysis and SD methods in order to obtain the results. They are two categories of clothes being identifiedas Traditional Typed and<br>Neo- TraditionalTyped. It showed the glimpsof both clothes were run across social borders of<br>Malaysian doing their everyday things. Results demonstrated that females were tied with performing cultural identity and the transformation of clothing values for their fashion trends.
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