Clothing in Africa

Africa's culture is so different compared to the United States, of course they would have different traditional clothing than America. Since at times it can get extremely hot in Africa, you would expect everyone to wear little clothing. However, most women wear beautifully colored dresses in many styles. Some styles are called a kanga, djellaba, or gomesi. Many of these women, too, wear head wraps with a piece of cloth. Males in Africa wear a dashiki, which is a long colorful short sleeved shirt. They also wear a grand boubou, which is a dress-like robe for a man. When seeing the grand boubou, it looks as if royalty from Africa would wear it. It looks very luxurious.

GOMESI

KANGA

DASHIKI

GRAND BOUBOU

These traditional African clothing are very beautiful, and come in all sorts of colors and amazing patterns. I have seen many of these outfits before hand, but I never knew what they were called. I think it would be very fun to try a couple of these outfits on to see what they would look like on me, since they look so natural on the Africans themselves. Overall, I love these dresses and shirts and they are very beautiful and full of life with tradition.