The answer sounds so obvious, what I'm actually curious is where the notion of traditional attire came from

I hear people making speeches like "We need to preserve our culture" ...."This is the clothes of our fore fathers". It's the second speech that's really strange

What our ancestors wore looked nothing like what people wear today, what seperates the so called 'traditional attire' from the white man's suit and tie... aren't they both whitemans attire?

Is this idea the effect of massive society brainwashing or does this have some credibility to it?

Op change this topic to
"were my ancestors unclad?"

Mine were half unclad. Leather mini skirts for everybody and no tops.

When the white man introduced clothes, they started micro mini clothes - I don't know if it was being economic , but I've seen my grandmothers old photos and wondered how smoothly they made that transformation from traditional to what she came to accept as more descent than the first two .. those were interesting times of nothing but change ...

igbos are unclad, yorubas, hausas are not.

sherlock229:
igbos are unclad, yorubas, hausas are not.

I understand the one about hausas probably because they were affected by Arabic culture as for that Yorubas part i don't get it

LordVoldermort:
I understand the one about hausas probably because they were affected by Arabic culture as for that Yorubas part i don't get it

Google it, yorubas and related tribes nupe, igala etc are always clothed, the cloth used in weddings," Aso oke "is the old form of the now modernised version yorubas wears .

Fatherofdragons:
u see that pic of ppl bending down to look at that box, that pic was taken in Lagos, I don't why u yolobas like looking for trouble, u better respect ur self ooooo

get a life.

sherlock229:



Google it, yorubas and related tribes nupe, igala etc are always clothed, the cloth used in weddings," Aso oke "is the old form of the now modernised version yorubas wears .

I googled it I couldn't find anything that supports it I only found this http://www.africa.uga.edu/Yoruba/unit_06/cultureunit.html

sherlock229:


get a life.

Afonjas and their usual lies and hate.

LordVoldermort:
I googled it I couldn't find anything that supports it I only found this http://www.africa.uga.edu/Yoruba/unit_06/cultureunit.html

.copied from the link

The Yoruba have peculiar types of clothes that make them distinct from other cultures. They have Aso ibile, the traditional clothes of various types and shades. Both male and female have different types and it is an aberration then for a man to wear a woman’s clothes and vice versa. Before the advent of the Europeans to the Yoruba land, only hand woven clothes were available. The Yoruba started from using ibante (a piece of thick hand woven cloth). It is only used for covering the private parts of both male and female. Ibante is made from a type of cloth called kijipa. (It is a tarpaulin – like cloth). It is usually very thick and can withstand any stress. Later on, people started wearing normal cloth that is made from aso-oke . Some of these types of aso-oke materials include etu, petuje, san-an-yan, alaaari and so on. For men’s wear, they have buba,
esiki and sapara, which are regarded as ewu awotele or under wear, while they also have dandogo, agbada, gbariye, sulia and oyala, which are also known as ewu awoleke or over wears. They also have various types of sokoto or native trousers that are sown alongside the above-mentioned dresses. Some of these are kembe, gbanu, sooro, kamu, sokoto elemu , etc. A man’s dressing is incomplete without a cap. Some of these caps include, but are not limited to, Gobi, tinko, abeti-aja, alagbaa, oribi, bentigoo, onide, and labankada. The tailors and the designers have various styles and patterns that they do to these caps and the various dresses mentioned above.