Title: Clothing in the Igbo culture. by sharae ratliff
Headings: Clothing in the Igbo culture.
Clothing in the Igbo culture.
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Clothing in the Ibo culture.
Ibo Wedding Attire
Ankle plates
At an Ibo wedding the fabric of the clothing generally goes with the them of everything else
Post colonial Attire for men.
Pre-colonial women's Attire :
Formal clothing
Women Post colonial attire:
Pre-colonial Traditional men Attire
"Culture of Nigeria." Countries and Their Cultures. Advmeg, Inc, 01 Jan. 2015. Web. 04 Apr. 2015. <http://www.everyculture.com/Ma-Ni/Nigeria.html>.
Example:
"Red cap"
Meaning of clothing
Title based attire.
There are certain clothing that is worn by the Ibo people because of their title or social status.
Children Attire
Cited Sources:
CITED SOURCES CONT...
"The Igbo Academy." The Igbo Academy. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Apr. 2015.
https://ndebe.wordpress.com/category/igbo-clothing/
Clothing because of Ibos location...

Content: The child is hardly wearing clothes. A group of women with their children. For formal occasions they wear a long shirt, often decorated with tucks and embroidery, over a dressy wrap, shoes, and a hat. Women wear wraps for both informal and formal occasions. The everyday wrapper is made from inexpensive cotton, dyed locally. For formal wear, the wrapper is either woven or batikdyed, and often imported. Two Ibo men wearing an Isiagu top, trousers and Okpu Agwu
These are all pictures of men and women wearing a formal Attire. During the pre- colonial era the formal clothing was The same as there modern day formal clothing but the clothing was made with less expensive material and was not as loud and colorful as the pictures up above. The Ibos live in Iboland. The stifling heat of central Africa dictated Their choice in clothing.