Phut:


You contradict yourself. Something can't be of African origin, exclusively, if the fabric is borrowed

TheEqualizer:

Hahaha! Ndi ara.
I probably write better Ibo than you.

Ihuomadinihu:

I wu nu onye ara. That's your favourite swear word!

cutietokunbo:


Check out Igbo and Northern traditional weddings in recent time and the reality of my submission ll instantly hit you straight up; from women headgears to Yoruba Women BUBA.

TheEqualizer:


Most fabrics are borrowed, what makes it yours (own them) is how you use them to create styles that define you. Ghanaian Kente is Chinese fabric but they owned it based on the style they created with it which is Ghanaian. You can make the same argument for all European clothes because cotton isn't European.

The style aren't African. Do you get my point now? Shirt is European, same for t-shirt, blazer, and suit.

Ihuomadinihu:

Still the same thing,you are still contradicting yourself.
We are not talking about blazer and suits . The crux of the matter is what is unAfrican about that Igbo attire?

TheEqualizer:


Most fabrics are borrowed, what makes it yours (own them) is how you use them to create styles that define you. Ghanaian Kente is Chinese fabric but they owned it based on the style they created with it which is Ghanaian. You can make the same argument for all European clothes because cotton isn't European.

The styles aren't African. Do you get my point now? Shirt is European, same for t-shirt, blazer, and suit.

TheEqualizer:


Okay, since you insist, what is African about shirt?

Is shirt, especially the one worn by the Ibo groom, an African style?

TheEqualizer:

Okay, since you insist, what is African about shirt?
Is shirt, especially the one worn by the Ibo groom, an African style?

Phut:

No I do not get you. Fashion is ever evolving and not static.
Changi is a style created by us. To follow your logic, the upper body covering worn by Yoruba men can be dismissed as a shirt, as well.

BTW, what is the upper body covering of Yoruba men, called? Abada/agbada is worn traditionally by Northerners as well as people from a lot of West African countries (mostly Muslim) such as Senegal. So where can we say is the source?

Phut:


Let me too ask you my own question. What is the upper body covering of Yoruba men called and what is its source?

theenii:
what i know definitely is i have never seen a non Ibo bride wearing a traditional igbo wedding attires ,go check on weddings blogs on facebook and Ig you will see many non Yorubas rocking the iro and buba and aso oke for their wedding, btw,no one can mix up the aso oke with any other fabric,aso oke it's simply unique and colourful.Yoruba traditional wedding attires is simply the best even non Nigerians rocks it

shikaan:
lmao... one love bruv.

TheEqualizer:


I don't know and I don't think I'm interested in knowing.

Can we stick to the topic? Whatever grouse y'all have with Yoruba is your prerogative. My post was based on the thread and I haven't edited it. It is still on the first page.

TheEqualizer:


What has Yoruba got to do with me? Pose the question to Yoruba.

I never mentioned Ibo but since y'all have turned it to Ibo, I will ask again: is shirt an Ibo style? Whatever name you call it is irrelevant, that is a shirt and it is European.

cutietokunbo:






Rubbish from Head to Bottom except Morocco. Some people tried but ended up with woman wrapper. Jeez!!!! Scottish are even trying to invent some better in 21st century while some people still sticked to cave combinations. Surprisingly, Somalians have equally dished woman wrapper to trousers.

WHAT TRADITIONAL WEDDING BEATS YORUBA TRADITIONAL WEDDING IN THE WORLD? NONE.

I RESPECT AND LOVE EDO TRADITIONAL WEDDING

Ihuomadinihu:

Hahaha,iberibe umuaka!
You made a statement and in your little mind,you felt other attires were not African enough.

TheEqualizer:


Okay, since you insist, what is African about shirt?

Is shirt, especially the one worn by the Ibo groom, an African style?

Phut:


It is pure ignorance to ascribe Tying wrappers over one shoulder to Scots alone. What would you call the Greek Toga?

Igbo's tie wrapper over one shoulder, Ghanians do it and I am sure there are others who do it as well. And all of this, they evolved independently.

How many ways are there to even tie wrapper? It's nonsensical to assert that that people couldn't figure this out and were waiting for the Scots

somegirl1:


Each to their own.
I personally find buba and iro too plain. Doesn't allow for versatility, every woman wears the same style. But some look nice only when the colour combination is nice.

Phut:


I am glad you wrote "women headgear" Most women in Africa have traditionally worn scarf or head covering. The Igbo's call it Ichafu and I am sure most other ethnicities have their name for it. Most of the scarfs that are currently worn are from an imported fabric that is stiff and sort of shiny. So you can stop claiming now.
P.S. This tradition of wearing head covering was so prevalent all over Africa that it was brought to the America's and the Carribean Islands by slaves

Naughtysite:

Please do the Zulu eat people after killing them ?

somegirl1:


The onus is on you to prove that the attire is unAfrican.

Ihuomadinihu:

You are obviously not Igbo. So who are you and where are you from. That will go a long way in solving this case.
The Shirt or whatever you choose to call it,has evolved just like other Nigerian attires. When has a shirt suddenly become your reason for dismissing people's attire?
I can give you a rundown of world clothings that evolved and still retained it's original identity.
You stick to one definition of African clothes! You are getting confused.

Phut:

Well it is very much on topic. I would call what they wear a shirt as well. Which totally obliterates your argument as to what is Unafrican.
Also i daresay that the Agbada's Yoruba's wear a lot of,was borrowed. Which takes us back to the claim that fashion is not static

somegirl1:


Nwanne gba onye ahu nkiti

Ihuomadinihu:

You are just one of those people that quote because they have no other alternative. Igbo might be a recent creation to you,that doesn't mean that ibo is right. Ibo is a creation of foreigners that couldn't prononce igbo correctly. It is against the phonlogical and linguistic rules of Igbo language. We now have a standard Otography which contains /gb/, it is better you respect that and write it correctly. Before we had ibo,we had Heebo and Eboe, today the world recognises Igbo as the official nomenclature for an ethnic group in old Eastern Nigeria. All the sochlastic materials were written before Igbo language,alphabet and otorgraphy was studied and approved.
I don't know how people will feel if i decide to write Yoruba as Yorob-a or America as Amirika,cos of pronouciation differences.
What prejudice? Everyone on Nairaland,knows that yoruba write ibo instead of spelling it correctly. You are only engaging in interference. If you weren't insecure and unreasonable,you wouldn't have made a mockery of what you erroneously perceive as undevelopment.
Secondly,if you go back to my earlier comments,i limited my views on only ''IGBO ClOTHING''. You are the one extending it to other attires,so you might want to respond to your questions. Your description and references is too far from my subject matter cos am not discussing the Western attires!
You made mention of Igbos running around naked ,apparently you felt they were the only ones walking naked at that time. Obviously naked igbos is something to make fun of according to you.
Only an unmannered and insecure person would do that on a public forum.

Phut:

Well it is very much on topic. I would call what they wear a shirt as well. Which totally obliterates your argument as to what is Unafrican.
Also i daresay that the Agbada's Yoruba's wear a lot of,was borrowed. Which takes us back to the claim that fashion is not static

TheEqualizer:


Now you agree with me that it's a shirt.

Can you expound on what makes an European shirt African?

TheEqualizer:


I neither said I was Ibo nor any ethnicity for that matter.

Can you define what an African attire is?

Would you call Ijaw/Urhobo/Itsekiri hats African hats?