The traditional Nyonya wardrobe may as well be synonymous with “elegance.” Back in the day, Nyonyas wore beaded slippers and a long tunic called baju panjang, with their long hair twisted up into a sanggol, or chignon. Holding the hair in place were chochok sanggol, literally “hair inserts.” In Malacca, Nyonyas favored the sanggol tiga-batang, a chignon that requires three hairpins of increasing size, with the larger two called korek kuping, or “ear-picks,” and the smallest called anak chochok sanggol, or “child of the hairpins.” A woman would typically own a few sets of hairpins of varying sizes, which she would wear at different periods of her life, starting with the smaller ones when she was a child and her hair was thinner, moving on to larger ones as she grew and her hair become fuller, and finally returning to the smaller ones as she entered old age. Read Less