AFRICA AFRICAN DRESSING

AFRICAN AFRICA DRESSES AND IT INFLUENCE .

The evolution of African clothing is difficult to trace because of the lack of historical evidence. Although artifacts from Egyptian culture date back to before 3000 B.C.E. , no similar evidence is available for the majority of the African continent until the mid-twentieth century. This is refer to the people of northern Africa by the eighth century C.E. , but much of early African clothing history has been pieced together from art, oral histories, and traditions that are continued by present-day tribal members.

When Europeans began trading and later developed colonies in Africa starting in the thirteenth century C.E. , more information about how Africans dressed was recorded and continues to this day. The spotty information available, combined with the huge number of different cultures living in Africa, however, provides only a very general history of the clothing trends on the continent.

Clothing was not a necessity for warmth or protection throughout much of the African continent because of the consistently warm weather.


Many people, especially men, did not wear any clothing at all and instead decorated their bodies with paint or scars. When Africans did wear clothing, evidence suggests that animal skins and bark cloth were the first materials used. It is unknown when these readily available materials were first utilized, but they were used to make simple aprons to cover the genitals or large robes to drape around the body. 

Later many cultures developed waeving techniques to produce beautiful cloth. Raffia, the fiber of a palm plant, and cotton were common materials used to weave fabric. At first cloth was woven by hand, and later looms (weaving devices) were created to make more complicated fabrics.



Yakurr Tradictional Dressing. 

Men and women worked together to produce fabric for clothing, with men weaving the fabric and women decorating it in many cultures. Perhaps the most well known fabrics were

Folded batik cloth. Some Africans used their fabric to create elaborate wrapped clothing styles, while others cut and sewed their fabrics into shirts, dresses, and trousers.

the intricately woven cotton or silk kenth of Ghana; the mud cloth of Mali, with its distinctive brown and beige patterns; and the tufted Kuba cloth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Other types of cloth were also woven by other groups; each culture using its distinctive cloth to create clothing. Some used their fabric to create elaborate wrapped clothing styles, similar to the toga  worn by ancient Romans. Others cut and sewed their fabric into skirts, shirts, dresses, and loose trousers. 


Different versions of loose-fitting 
robes are worn in many different regions of Africa. In western Africa , the African in such nationas like Nigeria and many more cultures developed weaving  techniques to produce beautiful cloth. 

As fabrics evolved within the contents. , western elements where not left aside as the various colonial master fabric infuriate their present formal and causal dressings,  resulting to 75% of the various regions inculcating their and all must leaving their african dressess. For as much as this present formal dressing are accepted and used their various traditional dressing still prostrate the sassy of African in all dimensions. 


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