Badu’ is a woven shirt with long sleeve, while Masap is trousers made bigger at the waistline. Masap is also called Souval Tanaru and has linangkit called Soval Sarabulu. The colour of the men and women attires is the same. 

This costume is completed with Sigal that is a headgear measuring one meter square, using the pis cloth folding to cover the wearer’s head. This embroidered cloth is produced by the Binada Bajau tribe in Kudat but worn by the Rungus men.

This traditional costume has two layers of cloths with background colours of black and orange. Colours like orange, yellow, purple pink, red and blue are the colours for motifs and pattern for the embroidery on Badu’ Masap. The motifs are elements of flora and fauna. For example, motifs resembling dragon (kaliagah), spider, fish, bird (agira), moth, and flower in blossom. The motifs on the pis cloth are connected to the Sea Bajau tribe that came from the Sulu Islands of the Philippines, especially the dragon motif (kaliagah).

Among the accessories decorating this traditional costume are the same as the accessories of the women costume, like Tinggot and Pinakol. A number of additional decorations like Inavol inserted alternately with Pinakol, is a long-woven cloth with geometrical motif. Sandal that is coloured cloth is placed across the shoulder down to the feet. At the waistline is a Hokos knot that is coloured cloths like red, green and yellow sewn together.

The Rungus ethnic chooses black as the main colour of their attire. According to their beliefs, the colour black signifies power or of god’s colour that can protect the wearer from bad supernatural beings. However, some parties said that the usage of this colour is suited to the livelihood and natural situations at that time. The ethnic’s traditional colours are black, red, yellow and white, with white and yellow as the colours for design pattern and stripes.

The Rungus’ woven cloth makes nature as guidelines in creating the motifs. Among the motifs are:

Benurunsi – of snail and clams. 

Binongkok – elements of a frog’s image. 

Binorokidung – theme of snake’s trail. Other terminology is Rinugading.

Binugang – resembling bird.

Binutuan – resembling the entwining of tree bark.

Inansal – of fences. 

Inompuling – of fish gaff.

Inugarang – resembling iguana or small lizard.

Inumpizos – resembling caterpillar. 

Kinadamazam – the kadamazam fruit.

Kiambang Kiapu – wood flower.

Kinulit – theme of banana skin. 

Lijawan - ferns.

Linimut – beetle’s image.

Linopung – of python.

Linopung  do  Kisorod – like a snake with fins.

Livato – of spirit and ghost.

Minimbayan – of cake wrapper.

Mitotorungak– of the society that is groups. 

Monsimuung – of spirit’s or animal’s image.  

Pinodkimo – oyster shell.

Sinikuvan – thread wheel.

Sinubung – wood measurement with something inserted in its middle.

Sinusuk  Rabung – bamboo shoot. 

Tinikou  Sada – a fish. 

Tiningulun – of human shape.

Tinolutug– a square surrounded with triangles.

Tinubou – theme of a peacock dancing.

Tinukad – of staircase.

Vinalahan – rattan flower (vakau).

Vinusak – jungle flowers.

Vinusak  Kapok – like a kapok flower.

This traditional attire is produced wholly by weaving using cotton known askapokby the local residents. The cloth used to produce the Rungus’ attire is weaved traditionally, known asmagavol ,that portrays its high traditional value based on the technic of making and decorative motifs produced.

The ethnic’s weaving motifs are with elements of animal shapes, human, armament and plants. The weaving process is the same as the weaving process of other traditional materials found in Sabah, that is using the weaving equipment Kek Sandang Belakang, called babaalin the Rungus dialect.