I love Kebaya. It doesn’t meant I have many of them, or I wore them many times. It just because I keep dream I wore kebaya the first time when I was 15 years old. I did not enjoy it. I just look different and ‘not real’. The second time was at my graduation , when I was 23.
Many years after that I started realized that kebaya is beautiful piece of garment and thinking to wear kebaya again at some point , but I never did it . I often look around in the shop. Thought to get one, but it raised a new question. What for?In these days, kebaya only be worn at special occasion. Wedding, special ceremony, party maybe. Those occasion are out of my agenda(except wedding). I went to some friend wedding, but I did not wore kebaya because it’s just wrong time, if I often went together with my friend from office. Dressing up in kebaya take quite long time and effort. Preparation, make up, hairdo . Ufh! I just can’t do it.
Just keep it in wardrobe? It’s a bit waste of money, cause the price of the kebaya I had spot on was always not cheap ( I think I have expensive taste …. ), and I did not have a lot money to waste. So I just keep dream about kebaya.
My third chance to wear kebaya was my wedding day, of course. I had two pieces. Both are pretty. The first is combination dark and pale blue, lace and long. The second pair was white, lace and long as well. I love them.
It didn’t stop me dream about it, to wear it again . Because kebaya is just lovely ,feminine and very Indonesian and some other reason that I do not quite get it in the real word( I love Ibu Kartini, my Grandmother, my mother, Anne Avanti – all the women who love kebaya)
As I can do sewing, I made 2 pieces a few years ago. I never wear it until now. No chance! I live in cold country now. I need jacket or coat all the time.
So I keep dreaming!
