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In the 1950’s a British company “Hayes” made most of the Yoruba high fashion head ties.  In the 1970’s those head ties incorporated N  and $ (Naira or money) symbols into the woven fabric and other high society associated symbols including the Mercedes Benz symbol.   In the 1970’s the more popular head ties came from Switzerland.  Today they come from China.



There was a time when head ties were made of silk.  But when a head ties is old or of floppy material one has to stuff it with a plastic bag or paper for it to hold its shape.  Damask was used by the wealthy ladies as head ties because it was heady.  However, it was also difficult to tie.  If you are high fashion Nigerian then once a year you will clean out your head ties and distribute them to relatives who do not have as much as them. It is also quite fashionable to take old head ties turn them into quilts.

stillwater:
Only on NL people think Igbos hate Yorubas and vice versa. You people should separate internet from reality, unless that's your reality sha.

It's just fashion people. Fashion in Nigeria has changed. Anybody can wear anything.
Like I said before, it's of recent Yoruba's started wearing this kind of gele. Maybe madam Kofo was the inspiration. lol.

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The colorful geles are a recent modification from not even Nigeria. Geles used to look more like the top picture, but they have been modified to look like this now. That is fashion. Yoruba did not start it. That is why in your weddings you were aso-oke and Igbo and south south wear them more in their weddings.

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Someone said Igbos called it Ichafu. That is why in most Igbo weddings and South South weddings they wear them more. You people should stop using internet to know the Nigerian culture, go to Naija. Everyone knows the stereotypical yoruba dressing is aso-oke, and south east to be the george and the gele. That is the Nigeria I grew up in. Let's not twist fact. I think Madam Kofo actually paved way for Yorubas to start embracing this type of gele.

See Dakore's wedding.

https://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Dakore-Olumide-Akande-Wedding-BELLANAIJA-EXCLUSIVE-Feb-2011-BellaNaijadotcom013.jpg

https://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Dakore-Olumide-Akande-Wedding-BELLANAIJA-EXCLUSIVE-Feb-2011-BellaNaijadotcom014-600x400.jpg

Igbo Wedding
https://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Ngozi-Ekezie-and-Wale-Akintujoye-Bella-Naija002-400x600.jpg

Even this paper-gele is becoming old school. What people wear now has this lacy texture to it in Nigeria.

This is a Yoruba girl getting married. Her sisters wore Igbo style of dressing, double wrapper george and lace top. The gele they are wearing is the modern modification of old school geles. It has a lacy texture. That is what is reigning now in Naija.

https://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Rotimi-Leigh-Dennis-Iweze-Traditional-Wedding-May-2011-BellaNaija-Exclusive-063-600x400.jpg

These material the girls on the side of the bride would pass for george.

https://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BellaNaijadotcomAbisola-Abiola-Ajimobi-Kolapo-Kola-Daisi-Engagement-Wedding019-600x398.jpg

On a closing note, Igbo people are not one dimensional, you can do whatever you like, wear whatever you like. It's all fashion. Afterall this is an Igbo couple on their wedding day, lol.

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Same with Yoruba people. I'm sure I've seen the Indian style dressing in a couple of Yoruba weddings.

ezeagu:
You've observed that Yoruba women are being dumped for women of other cultures?

Men chase women, women don't chase men

ezeagu:
I don't know if you know anything about Nigeria, but it's men that usually chase women, not the other way. And there are excess Igbo women on this earth so it's okay for them to go and spread culture elsewhere, like they are with other Nigerians, Caribbean's, and African Americans. Go and ask the Kalabari how it turned out for them. The hand that rocks the cradle. . . . .

imagine bragging about your men travelling to find other women to marry instead

It’s a Sudano-Sahelian creation, which every African group’s especially west African groups picked up; the only thing associated to Yoruba in Nigeria is the name

Iya Witch:
i kneel down for Jesus

Igbos wearing it ight have been of yoruba ancestry?

An Igbo man like me can change the name to Ezeike and that name becomes a widespread name across SE and SS, do either I or any other Igbo man have the right to claim Ezeike is ours? No.

There are Igbo groups that wore agbada long before their interaction with Yoruba. Those two men wearing agbada has two reason for wearing such attire? It's either they picked it up from their ancestors or the interaction.  How can you be so sure they wore the agbada because of Yoruba?

Nnamdi is an Anambra descendant, Anambra long before their interaction to Yoruba wore Agbada, and I posted the pictures in previous pages.

For those who wished to continue in the old ways and traveled to faraway Ilorin for oracular consultations, Onyeama imported Ilorin Muslim medicine men