I've visited the Peranakan museum previously but made a return to catch a specific exhibition close the Sarong Kebaya. The Sarong Kebaya was the chosen wearable of the Peranakan women (nyonya's) for many generations. If you lot are non certain what this agency of wearable looks similar convey a hold off at the uniform of the air stewards on Singapore Airlines, their uniforms were inspired past times this clothing.
The exhibition traces its history by looking at the Middle Eastern, Indian, Chinese as well as European influences as well as how the styles, materials as well as decorations used altered accordingly between the 16th and 20th centuries. It is a staggering collection of master copy pieces (many on loan) all exquisitely as well as painstakingly designed as well as made. The colours as well as designs are beautiful as well as the exhibition shows how the wearable developed from a really basic functional slice to carefully designed high fashion pieces of their solar daytime as well as culture. Where wearing your best pieces was really much a component of demonstrating to others your standing as well as position as good as the overall elegance of the nyonya's.
As I wandered some the exhibition I was struck past times how many of the designs could even as well as thus live on considered very wearable. Many of the afterwards designs, inward particular, would non hold off out of house for sale in a high street store. They actually were stunning as well as the designs on many of them unique as well as amongst much symbolic pregnant to them.
The exhibition is on now and runs until the 26 Feb 2012. I assemble that some Oct fourth dimension they'll live on replacing many of the electrical flow sarong kebaya's on display amongst novel ones (possibly worth a farther visit). The museum is on Armenian Street as well as is opened upwardly on Mondays from 1pm to 7pm as well as Tuesdays to Sundays from 9am to 7pm (9pm on Fridays). As good equally this exhibition there is a whole gain of exhibits close Peranakan civilisation at the museum. It is good worth a catch if you lot are interested inward finding out to a greater extent than close the Peranakan communities of South East Asia.