Getting To Know Bodo Clothes, Traditional Clothing Worn By Bugis Women

YOGYAKARTA Many of us do not know the bodo clothes, traditional clothes worn by women on the Bugis, Makassar, and Mandar people. Bugis people call them the name waju Ponco, usually worn at traditional events, such as weddings.

Called a bodo shirt because of the long square and short sleeves. This traditional dress is combined with a sarong as a cover for the lower body. For more details, let's look at the review below.

Bodo clothes are one of the oldest clothes in the world. Based on information compiled by VOI, it is said that the bodo shirt has been worn by the people of South Sulawesi since the middle of the first century. At that time, the bodo shirt was made of muslin cloth, which is a woven cloth sheet from cotton pills woven with cotton thread.

This traditional clothing is associated with Marco Polo's notes published in 1928. In a book entitled The Travel of Marco Polo, it is mentioned the manufacture of muslin cloth made in Mosul, irak, and sold by a trader called Musolini. The cloth is also traded in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. Muslin cloth is suitable for tropical areas because it is hollow and has a loose thread density.

In the past, many women wore body clothes without chest covers. After Islam entered Sulawesi, there was a change in the bodo shirt. This dress was modified into a la'bu shirt with long sleeves and covered the aurat.

Over time, the brackish clothes that were originally thin, turned thicker and seemed stiff. The ingredients also use other ingredients such as silk, no longer muslin cloth.

The Bodo shirt is made of a rectangular bentuk cloth folded on the shoulder. This outfit looks like a seamless bracketed shirt, with the bottom open. At the top there are no collarless holes for the head.

Bodo clothes also have holes where the hands are in and out on the upper left and right ends. Bodo clothes do not have buttons or other adhesives. Generally, bodo clothes are worn with head decorations and gloves or lipa.

The color of the bodo shirt is distinguished according to age. For girls under 10 years old, the color is ivory yellow. This color depicts a cheerful world of small children.

Furthermore, the bodo shirt for ages 10 to 14 years uses orange or pink. In Bugis, the red color is easy to call Bakko, which is a representation of Bakka's word, which means half mature.

In women aged 14 to 17 years, the color of the bodo shirt is dark red with a layered cloth and arrangement. This color is also intended for women who are married and have children. Meanwhile, women aged 25 to 40 years wore black bodo clothes.

Apart from age, the use of color on bodo clothes is also usually distinguished according to social factors. For example, white is used by the hostes tau bissu. The aristocrats and their descendants use green. It is said that the color is a symbol that they uphold the dignity of their nationality.

Even so, at this time, brides also often wear white and green bodo clothes.

That's the information about bodo clothes. Hopefully this article can make readers get to know better about fake clothes. To get other selected news updates, keep reading VOI.ID.