What we are looking at here Bjorn has not the smallest thing to do with the keris as an item of dress.
Javanese people, commoners as well as kings, were and are in the habit of gifting a keris to a person with whom they desire to form a strong bond. The gift of a keris forms that bond and encapsulates the binding power of the Naga Basuki (Vasuki).
I guess that Queen Wilhelmina might not have been aware of the implications from a Javanese point of view when she accepted the gift.
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