Page 63 - Malay sketches

THE JOGET

and gold. The girls' hair, combed down in a fringe,
was cut in a perfect oval round their foreheads and
very becomingly dressed behind.
The bodices of their dresses were made of tight-
the neck and arms
fitting silk, leaving bare, whilst
a white band of fine cambric (about i J inches wide),
passing round the neck, came down on the front of
the bodice in the form of a V, and was there
fastened by a golden flower.
Round their waists were belts fastened with large
worked or buckles of
and curiously pinding gold,
so large that they reached quite across the waist.
The rest of the costume consisted of a skirt of cloth
at all like the to the
of gold (not sarong), reaching
while a scarf of the same
ankles, material, fastened
in its centre to the waist- buckle, hung down to the
hem of the skirt.
All four dancers were dressed alike, except that
the elder girls wore white silk bodices with a red
and gold handkerchief, folded cornerwise, tied under
the arms and knotted in front. The points of the
handkerchief hung to the middle of the back. In
the case of the two younger girls the entire dress
was of one material.
On their arms the dancers wore numbers of
gold
bangles, and their fingers were covered with diamond
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