currently working in this character, Asih, Jawanese female and she is wearing Kebaya (Jawanese traditional cloth). She is also using Sanggul, some traditional hair do and it used to be very hard to do it, you must have a very long hair. but today there's also Sanggul wig, just attach it with velcro on your head my mom is traditional wedding and make up artist so i used to watch her do this and that.

Done it in Blender 2.49 and GIMP 2.6.6. love the projector painting feature in Blender it help a lot