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2. Dashiki - Wikipedia

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   This style is called a dashiki suit or dashiki trouser set and it is the attire worn by most grooms during wedding ceremonies. The second version consists of an ankle-length shirt, matching kufi, and sokoto and is called a Senegalese kaftan. The third type consists of a dashiki and matching trousers. A flowing gown is worn over these.

3. Boubou (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   The nobility of 12th and 13th-century Mali, the 14th century Hausa Bakwai and Songhai Empires, then adopted this dress combination as a status symbol, as opposed to the traditional sleeveless or short-sleeved smocks (nowadays known as dashiki or Ghanaian smocks) worn by ordinary people/non-royals, or the Senegalese kaftan, a variant of the Arab ...

4. Folk costume - Wikipedia

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   Nigeria – Agbada, Dashiki or Isiagu and Fila gobi, Fila Abeti Aja (male), Iro ati Buba, Wrapper (clothing) (female); every ethnic group has their style of traditional dress, worn mostly for special occasions such as weddings and national holidays

5. Clothing in Africa - Wikipedia

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   On the other hand, women have started to adapt influences from "19th-century Victorian dress". These styles include: "long sleeves and puffed shoulders, a full skirt, and commonly a colorful bow tied around the waist". This style of dress is called a busuti. [1]

6. Wrapper (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   However, in some parts of Ghana and the United States, some women wear black-and-white prints, or black and red. The kaftan is the most popular attire for women of African descent throughout the African diaspora. African and African-American women wear a wide variety of dresses, and skirt sets made out of formal fabrics as formal wear. However ...

7. Fashion in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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   The gele is peered with Iro ati Buba, Komole dress or Asoebi dresses by Yoruba women. Edo women wear a wedding crown called an okuku. [2] Muslim women in northern Nigeria wear various types of veil, including the hijab, which reveal the face but cover the hair and may cover much of the body. Veiling may take fashionable forms.