Sinuangga is made from black velvet material embroidered or pasted on with golden lace called linda, and small betawi buttons called labuan.

Sinuangga is completed with traditional accessories that are important to be protected due to invaluableness. The women wear waist tier called himpogot betungkat that is a belt of a chain string of silver coins worn at the waist and hip. Normally, himpogot comprises of two or three chain strings, one each at the top and below the tangkong accessory. The number of himpogot worn depends on one’s affordability.

The hip belt called tangkong is made of 84 copper ring-like shape each measured around half an inch in diameter carved with gong pattern are inserted into a fine rattan string. A tangkong normally consists of 30 to 40 rings.

Three strings of tangkong are worn together, tied with red rattan string (hindagang) for unmarried women and black (initom) for the married. This string is normally emptied at the back to prevent the wearer from breathing problem. Tangkong can be loosened for various purposes like making it easier to carry a basket on one’s back.

Sinuangga is also decorated with accessories like betawi buttons, entwined with a string on the inside so that the buttons can also be used on other blouse. In yester years, the buttons were pasted till the blouse neckline for certain ceremonies and half of the blouse’s lower part for everyday usage. Nowadays, these buttons are tied from the blouse’s top part till the lower part using cotton thread. Gold coated buttons portray status symbol for the Kadazan ethnic. For example, those who afford to own 30 buttons of this kind are considered rich.

Titimbak is hair pin to decorate and tighten hair bun called Tinimbuku. This pin is made of silver and two are worn together. Nowadays, there are those who replace it with flowers.

Other accessories are Gohong that is copper or silver bracelet. Nowadays, gold rings are often worn. There is also the accessory Amas Paun, a brooch of the golden-coloured dollar coins of the early 20th century, necklace (hamai), earring (simbong) and ring (sinsing).

The Kadazan women also wear two shawls made of a variety of woven cloths and joint at both ends. The shawls are normally crossed-placed on the left and right shoulders that looks like the letter ‘X’. Husob that is a woven cloth made of pineapple thread is only used by bobohizan during mantra recitals.

Velvet or linen materials are used for certain ceremonies and cotton for everyday wear. Black colour was mostly used in yester years as Sabah’s original residents only depended on a number of plant types to make cloth dipping liquid. Nowadays, this costume is normally worn during festivities like Harvest Festival, wedding and the like.

The main stitch on this traditional costume is sinusuk buus that is a chain stitch and tantop, a fur stitch. The fur stitch technique is also used to make binuunsi that is a stripe each of red and yellow woven like a shoe lace.