Wednesday, 9 March 2016

WHAT IS SIRAT?

Assalamualaikum and hello.  I think most of you are waiting for me explain more about Iban’s traditional clothing.  So today I will start with male clothing. As we can see on the Figure 1, long ago the man was wear a loincloth and from that we can know that  the loincloth is a garment of great antiquity of the original men’s clothing in Iban community. They called the loincloth as sirat. They think that sirat  is an immodest garment which used to cover the men genitals. Sirat is made by a strip of material about 10 inches wide and 10 to 12 feet long.  The picture figure 2 show how to wear a sirat.



                                                                    
                                                                         FIGURE 1




                                                                         FIGURE 2

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