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2. Yoruba clothing - Wikipedia

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   The main components of Yoruba women's clothing are: Iro ati Buba: This consists of a loose-fitting blouse that covers the upper body and a large wrapper that is wrapped around the waist and covers the lower body. It can be made from the same fabric as the top to bottom or a different one each for the Iro ati buba parts.

3. Wrapper (clothing) - Wikipedia

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   Buba is a Yoruba word that means the upper clothing. For women, the buba is worn with the iro (wrapper) and gele (head tie). For men, it is worn with sokoto (trousers) and fila (hat). The buba, sokoto/iro and fila/gele set is the traditional costume of the Yoruba people in South Western Nigeria and the other regions of Yorubaland.

4. Aso oke - Wikipedia

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   Aso Oke sewn into Agbada outfit and Fila Traditional Yoruba women's garment. Aso oke fabric, (Yoruba: aṣọ òkè, pronounced ah-SHAW-okay) is a hand-woven cloth that originated from the Yoruba people of Yorubaland within today's Nigeria, Benin and Togo.

5. 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.

6. Gele (head tie) - Wikipedia

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   Gele is worn with other Yoruba women's outfits, like Iro ati buba, Komole and Asoebi. Nigerian politician Funmilayo Olayinka wearing Gele Yoruba woman in Gele Yoruba woman in a Gele style Yoruba woman in Gele. It is a tied or wrapped around and styled piece of clothing around Yoruba women’s heads, which are used for fashion and special ...

7. Shade Thomas-Fahm - Wikipedia

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   Thomas-Fahm specialized in the use of locally woven and dyed textiles to make modern contemporary styles that became known in Nigeria and around the world. [11] She transformed iro and buba into a wrapper skirt; [12] and the creation of the 'ajuba now popularly known as the 'boubou' form men's agbada.