African clothing

The peoples of Africa often use costumes, body paint, fabrics and ornaments, as the identities of their proper groups. Usually the paintings are used in ceremonies, to decorate the body or to display the style of his tribe, all the paintings have a different meaning.
The influence comes through western clothes resold in the African market. These "white clothes" mitumba known, are quite common in some parts of the continent. There is much controversy surrounding them.
The clothing of African women, based largely on cloth or yokes that wind in the body such as dresses, sarongs, shawls, etc.. They are beautiful and finishing fabrics in which the pattern is recognized worldwide. The Africans, more than anybody, speak through his cloths. "I walk faster than my rival," my husband is able "and" your foot, my foot "are some of the words spoken by the famous figurative prints printed fabrics made in that continent, especially in places like Ghana, Benin , Togo and Ivory Coast (all with the same linguistic and cultural matrix, the Akan). The Africans see a Gucci or Dior clothes, copying the model and say to the tailor: I want one like it. With an advantage: they adapt to suit your taste. What matters is not whether it's Gucci or Dior, but if the fabric is good if the clothes are well made. For it is in Africa, the habit of buying a cloth and take it to the professionals who cut and sew your way is still preserved, as was common in a not too distant Brazil. "Everyone ordered clothes, the richest to the poorest," says the researcher, stating that, among the latter is also quite common to buy second hand clothes. The practice of having to make dresses, skirts and blouses that are so common in open-air markets, one sees men and women with sewing machines sitting on the floor waiting for customers who arrive with sketch in hand.