Najib chooses official attire for Merdeka celebrations

The attire for the event were chosen from three designs.

PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Najib Razak today chose the official attire for the country’s 54th Independence Day celebration with has been postponed to Sept 16, which is also Malaysia Day.

The separate attire for men and women were chosen from three designs each created by the Malaysian Handicraft Development Corporation, which were showed off by models to the prime minister.

Also present were Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Information, Communications and Culture Minister Rais Yatim, several other Cabinet ministers and chief secretary to the government Mohd Sidek Hassan.

Rais later told reporters that the prime minister was attracted to all the designs displayed which combined the basic national colours of red, white and blue but had to chose the ones which would really suit the auspicious occasion this year.

He hoped the attire to be won by the Cabinet ministers for this Merdeka celebration would attract the interest of the public to purchase them after Sept 16.

-Bernama