Uniform
Silat attire varies according to style and locality. People of the Malay Peninsula traditionally wore sarong and carried a roll of cloth which could be used as a bag, a blanket or a weapon. The standard full dress of today's silat practitioners usually consists of the following:
- The tengkolok and tanjak are headkerchiefs with different ways of tying them depending on status and region.
- The baju Melayu, meaning "Malay clothes" is the male shirt but is also worn by female silat exponents.
- The samping is a waistcloth.
- The bengkung is a cloth belt or sash which secures the samping. Some schools colour the bengkung to signify rank, a practice adopted from the belt system of Japanese martial arts.
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