Culture Clothing

It is no stranger to us that each provinces in Indonesia has its own distinctive Culture Clothing, some with its own unique style and fabric materials where as a few have a tad of similarity here and there. Today there are less and less indigenous people wearing their ethnic Culture Clothing customs with the exception of those during certain ceremony or even sacred performances. A wedding ceremony is an acceptable occasion for traditional appearances.

Though the younger generation in the name of practicality is slowly adopting modern Clothing for every day activities, but mostly just about everybody agree how cumbersome wearing such traditional Clothing for even a few hours on an important ceremony.  The threat of traditional erosion is somewhat balanced by the fact of growing number of such clothing rental outlets available at most large cities.

However the phenomena does not hamper as negative impact to the every day life of Balinese indigenous people. The traditional Culture Clothing in Bali is in fact tremendously being adopted as a way of life more than ever. Enforcing a local culture being intact and embracing them for tourist attraction is a good case of heritage preservation while simultaneously enhance more local income as well as abiding sacred religious value! Unlike any where else the traditional custom Clothing in Bali is more like perpetual Kids Trend for the local young generation.

Looking from humanity perspective the younger generation may perhaps still absorb a sort of moral behavior modeling, at least with greater acceptance and together with higher desire of willingness. Very few could appreciate artistic messages from any kind of Balinese performance when they have been watching at such for dozen times. This is the case as my wife never gets bored going for these performances, and for me despite of my sisters at their childhood learning Balinese dances.

Though I am certain that my wife appreciations differs to mine, and that personally watching the sacred Legong as it used to be for the high ranking kingdom's consumption only, but more values toward heritage preservation and most importantly as a virtually exporting commodity. Yet fairly often we find a unique and distinctive charm being generated at any traditional dance performance regardless. Whether it is a Balinese or Javanese performances or any 30 odd other provincial ethnicity. 

More over you require no mathematics discipline skills to appreciate as such, and most importantly there is no copyright infringement. They are ours and is here to stay! This is the earthly bound tropical paradise archipelago.