Sunday, July 8, 2012
Wearing African Clothes
Wearing African clothes is very prestigious to the black
people of Africa and America. Most of the clothes that African and African American
people wear are vibrantly colored and nicely designed. However, it is to admit
in some countries where black people reside, there has been a replacement of
these traditional clothes by European dresses. This is a big question if the
other parts of the world where black people reside are going to adopt these
western dresses casting away the thousand year old African clothes. However, in
the northern part of Africa (Egypt for one) the conventional pinkish thongs
worn by women there are basically influenced by the Middle Eastern culture and
it will be obvious to you when you see the embroidered Jellabiya dresses. But the
northwestern part of Africa is actually less influenced by the western culture
and is still contented with antiquity. The very common and popular African clothe
Djellaba has the same properties as the Dashiki, the Grand Boubou and the
Kaftans.
Within Sahelian African continent, the actual Dashiki,
Senegalese kaftan, and also the Grand boubou tend to be worn much more
prominently, although not solely. The Dashiki is actually highly stylized and
it is rendered by having an ornate V-shaped collar. In comparison with that, the
Great Boubou is very simple, even much more than the actual Djellaba, although
the color styles reach amazing proportions, especially one of the Tuareg, who
are recognized for their superbly dyed indigo robes. The great majority of
fabric produced within the African continent in the centuries had been simple
designs made by combining the actual natural whitened (as well as sometimes
beige) of the cotton fibers with stripes of numerous shades of indigo azure.
Depending upon the relative density of the warp as well as weft posts, the
ensuing cloths might have stripes down to the strip- warp faced-or over the
strip –weft faced. They mainly wore the skin of the pet and a few times wove
the actual fur right into a piece of clothing. You should remember a few things
when you are planning on wearing African clothes. For example, putting on
African clothes having socks in your feet has a tendency to expose a person and
make you a beginner in your dressing design. You can all kinds of fashionable African
clothes at www.afrawear.com
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