AFRICAN DRESSES

Our wide selection of African dresses for women is the best place to enrich your wardrobe. Pure afro styles, in all sizes and colors, that coordinate perfectly with any outfit. This is the complete and ideal range for all your events.

PRESENTATION OF AFRICAN DRESSES

There African dress , like everywhere else, communicates age, gender, occupation, ethnicity, power and religious commitment for everyday occasions, celebrations, ceremonies and rituals. In addition to fashionable Western clothing, Africans wear Islamic and indigenous clothing.

Dressing involves fully or partially covering the body by complementing it with clothing and accessories such as headwear and jewelry and modifying the body itself with tattoos or piercings. Dressing properly for Africans involves good conduct and elegant style, which includes appropriate clothing, cosmetics and hairstyle, as well as magnificent carriage, graceful movement, careful grooming and immaculate clothing.

African clothing worn every day indicates socially significant categories, but can also express personal idiosyncrasy. When Africans wear identical clothing, such as uniforms or clothing made of the same fabric, their attire emphasizes group membership and downplays individuality. African dress is not the same as African costume. Actors and mascots temporarily conceal their personal identities through costume, whereas in everyday life people communicate and reveal their personal identities through clothing.

DIVERSITIES OF AFRICAN DRESSES

African dress is as varied and diverse as the historical and cultural backgrounds of African people in fifty-five countries and over eight hundred language groups. The African continent is two and a half times larger than the American continent. Africa's physical environment ranges from the Sahara and Kalahari deserts to the Great Rift Valley mountains, the tropical rainforests of West and Central Africa and the arid Sahel region that borders the Sahara. What Africans wear is linked to these factors of the physical environment, foreign and internal trade and migration, the influences of explorers, missionaries and travelers, and their own creativity.

Specific information about the clothing of each ethnic group comes from social, religious, and political history, as well as oral, archaeological, commercial, and trade records. The earliest evidence of clothing is depicted in the rock art of northern, southern, and eastern Africa, indicating elements of clothing that predate contact with European, Asian, and Middle Eastern peoples. The Tellem Caves in Mali provide fabric fragments that provide evidence of hand-woven clothing prior to Saharan trade or coastal contact.