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February 17, 2012

Apparel revolution in Africa may seem quite interesting for you to look onto new and varied graduation dresses collections.




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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 17, 2012 -- African fashion is amazing and this can be noticed in many trendy graduation dresses collections. Let us start with a bit of history. When Europe tried to control much of the world, Europeans were much more rigid canons, and the fundamental rule was that the body was hidden, so the only clothes left show the face and hands, and sometimes not even that. It was considered immoral to teach the arms, legs or other body part, and this, even on beaches.
Societies and modalities

With this mentality is like the Europeans came to Africa, and were found south of the Sahara, with societies that lived there were some habits in dress, diametrically opposed to theirs. Facing the European obsession with hiding the body, they found a people who proudly displayed not only the body but they used all kinds of ornaments to highlight it. But do not be surprised to discover that the world had other cultures from which they could see and learn new things, but were shocked that not everyone will stick to its moral uniformed and tried to impose their rules and customs.

After continuous campaigning for changes in dress habits, Europeans were introducing their own graduation dresses fashions or creating new ones (short sleeve shirts, shorts, safari jackets, etc..), Becoming the clothing styles of European cities , fashion more Europeanized elite West African, while in North Africa, it would impose or maintain the style of the Islamized countries of the north. But there still remained some independent fashion, as will the Bubu from western countries, or the like Yoruba, Burnus Morocco, Sudan or the hijab kanzu kofia of the territories and Swahili. While materials were basic, the garments were unique!
Broadly speaking, during the 30's, three zones can be considered from the point of view of the clothing influencing current graduation dresses styles:
- In the southern and eastern Africa, the European style, prestige and clothes begins to replace the imitation of military uniforms which until then was widespread.
- Fashion, part of the Tanzanian coast, spreads inland to Malawi and Zambia, and from Nairobi to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

At that time, the styles are very different in southern Africa, especially Angola and Mozambique. The shorts and short sleeve shirt or Saharan become normal work clothes in the cities, while rural areas are still holding handkerchiefs or a combination thereof and European dress. Gradually, the cloth of women is being replaced by the clothes used in missions.
To conclude, the European dress is so accepted that, for example in Namibia, a style of nineteenth-century central Europe becomes over time, in a kind of ethnic clothing between the Nama and the Herero. The African fashion graduation dresses tastes have not kept military as an expression of ethnicity except among the Zulu and Nguni.

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