The Development of The Traditional Wedding Dres of Pidie Regency, Aceh Province

Abstract

This study examines the Development of Customary Clothes Marriage of Pidie District, which aims to know the differences of traditional in the past with custom clothing that has been developed to date in terms of materials, motifs, colors, models and designs. This research used qualitative descriptive method with 3 research subjects consisting of 2 bride and bridegroom as well as 1 person from the Majlis Adat Aceh. The data collection is done by observation, documentation and interview. The results showed that in the 1980's, customary clothing was still original, in the 1990's has been progressing gradually by little, in 2000 experienced a fairly rapid development to date. The development looks in terms of materials used are no longer focused on velvet, already using materials such as chiffon, Taveta, and so forth, typical Pidie motifs are rarely used, combined with other motifs, in terms of color not only use the color of Aceh, has been using a variety of other colors, models and designs are customary clothing Pidie.