Hello girls! Now we see on the diferrent month, it’s April. I like to tell you more information about fashion. This inspiration come from a lesson at my school. The theme of today is........
“DAMN! I LOVE INDONESIA” is one of clothing line in Indonesia which made by VJ Daniel or Daniel Mananta. That outlets are available in Jakarta. The favourite shirt is a simple shirt with text “DAMN! I LOVE INDONESIA”. But, on this blog I don’t want to discuss about that clothing line and not the clothes from that clothing line. I will discuss about my own wardrobe, but that wardrobe mean that I love Indonesia. I want discuss now about batik.
Batik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique (wikipedia). Batik or fabrics with the traditional batik patterns are found in Malaysia, Japan China, Azerbaijan, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, and Singapore. Especially Indonesia, because on October 2, 2009 UNESCO designated batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. That’s why on October 2, Indonesia celebrate Batik National Day.
Teenager in Indonesia always thing that Batik is old school, just our parents or grandparents who use it. If they wear Batik, that just because Batik is their uniform. Like my Junior High School, every Friday and Saturday we always use Batik and a black cloth pants for our uniform. If I wear that uniform, I always look like a teacher.
First, I don’t like wear Batik. After I companny my father to buy a batik and I found a cute batik dress at there and my daddy bought me that. I like wear batik. My father too, when I was child my mother bought my father 2 batik. But, my father didn’t like to wear it. So, he brought the batik to his friend. But after he bored wear menswear like strip clothes, he finally bought batik and he like it. Now, he collected batik for his wardrobe to go church or some wedding invitation. And at Chinesse New Year this year, my father wore batik and my mother asked me to accompany him wear batik. I do it. After that we went to family gathering at my gramndma’s house. All of my aunt and my ucle laugh see me and my father wore that batik and they always called my dad ‘pak lurah’.
Okay, that’s just a story to make all of us doesn’t bored to read this post. Now let’s discuss about batik and first I want to show you my picture first. Check it out!
Shirt (Batik Keris)
Long pants (unbranded)
Flat shoes (unbranded)
Glasses (unbranded)
Okay, let us discuss about my first picture. That shirt is to big, the size is not fit with my body, That’s one of my uniform. I forget to tell you, my batik uniform is free motif. Let’s back to the our discuss. Because that size is not fit, that’s my I put that shirt in my long pant. You can put belt on the pant. On this photo I use glasses, just for old school accent.
Now let’s check the second photo that the shirt fit with my body, so we don’t need to pu the shirt in pant. Let’s check!
Shirt (Batik Keris)
Long pants (unbranded)
Flat shoes (unbranded)
Glasses (unbranded)
I think it same with the first picture, so do that is one of my uniform too. But I look like one of the student of a university. That the picture if the shirt doesn’t put in long pants. But I still like the first picture, that make you more neat and more old school. If my uniform is batik and jeans is very okay, but the thruth that my uniform is batik and black cloth pants.
Let’s check the last photo. That make you more elegant and feminim. Now batik has a lot of model, that’s make teenager can use it too and change their mind that not only our parents out grandparents who use batik for their outfit. We can, just choose the model that you like or buy batik like I use at the first and the second photo, but you can match it with short, long pants, skirt or any idea that you can express with batik. Okay the last photo, show it!
Batik (danar hadi)
Flat shoes ( unbranded)
There is a lot of brand of batik in Indonesia like Batik Keris and Danar Hadi. The famous batik are from Solo, but any place in Indonesia have batik. Like Madura, Pekalongan, of course Malang. City where I live have batik too. One that make me shock that they have batik too is Papua. Papua have batik with so many color. My mom have friend from Papua and he give my mom 3 cloth of Papua’s Batik with color is brown (that natural), orange (a litlle bit shock) and the last is pink (really shock). My mom have an idea to sew it become 5 clothes for my dad, my mom and my 2 sister and of course me. The good news, my mother didn’t do that.
Okay Indonesia teenager, don’t be shy to wear our handmade clothes like batik. You shouldn’t wear batik for clothes but you can wear for bag, jacket or anything else. Another country very excited with batik and they want steal it from us. That’s easy to steal it, because a lot of people who have it doesn’t like with what that they have. Love your culture, we have a lot of culture and every culture have a different item. So many culture in Indonesia make a lot of foreigner come to see it.
That’s all that I can share to all of you, I hope you enjoy this post and you can more love Indonesia. See you at the next post. Please leave comment for a better post. Let’s tell to the world that we are teenager who love batik and shout together “DAMN! I LOVE INDONESIA”. XOXO, Veve.