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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!
This is AMAZING.
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ily, menswear guy
Clothing has denoted social class since... oh wait since forever. Like literally. Sumptuary laws, which often designate WHO is allowed to wear WHAT (styles, fabrics, colors, accessories) have been around since ancient times. Certain clothing has denoted whether you are in the royal court and what specific rank you have (like the colors of wonsam in Korea - which also has this fascinating history with enormous wigs and whether they're legal). Prostitutes in many medieval European cities had a particular "uniform" to make them immediately visually identifiable from "virtuous" women, and Jewish people in medieval Europe likewise have been forced to wear certain kinds of clothing and accessories so everybody knew they were Jewish (yes, like the Jewish star during the Holocaust). Women in England and France during the French Revolution cut their hair hella short to indicate their sympathy with the French aristocracy, who had all their hair cut off in preparation for execution at the guillotine. Women wearing trousers in various situations from the 19th century to the late 20th century could be a revolutionary political act. Black women in the 1960s wore their hair in an afro as an expression of pride in their heritage and culture. I wear t-shirts with trans-inclusive Pride flags - and lots of other US Americans wear Confederate flags - to advertise adherence to particular causes, political parties, and identities. Dress is inherently, universally, eternally, deeply intertwined with politics.
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Dressing Gown
c. 1840
Litchfield Historical Society
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La Mode, 8 juin 1839, Paris. Coiffure argus et turban de Maurice Beauvais. Robe garnie de guipure de Me. Doucet, de la Paix. Robe des magasins de Gagelin Opigez. Chemise et col de Oudinot Latel, place de la Bourse. Costume de Drappier, Cassolette à parfumes de Guerlin, Lambrequins de Maigret. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library
Source: tessa2.lapl.org
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Mongolia's 2024 Olympic uniform, by Ulaanbaatar-based Michel&Amazonka
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The Himba (singular: OmuHimba, plural: OvaHimba) are indigenous peoples with an estimated population of about 50,000 people living in northern Namibia, in the Kunene Region (formerly Kaokoland) and on the other side of the Kunene River in Angola. The OvaHimba are a semi-nomadic, pastoralist people, culturally distinguishable from the Herero people in northern Namibia and southern Angola, and speak OtjiHimba, a variety of Herero, which belongs to the Bantu family within Niger–Congo. The OvaHimba are considered the last (semi-) nomadic people of Namibia.
The Himba often cover themselves with otjize paste, a cosmetic mixture of butterfat and ochre pigment, to cleanse the skin over long periods due to water scarcity and protect themselves from the extremely hot and dry climate of the Kaokoland as well as against mosquito insect bites. The cosmetic mixture, often perfumed with the aromatic resin of the omuzumba shrub, gives their skin and hair plaits a distinctive orange or red-tinge characteristic, as well as texture and style. Otjize is considered foremost a highly desirable aesthetic beauty cosmetic, symbolizing earth’s rich red color and blood the essence of life, and is consistent with the OvaHimba ideal of beauty. The OvaHimba are also accustomed to use wood ash for hair cleansing due to water scarcity.
Hairstyle and jewelry play a significant role among the OvaHimba, it indicates age and social status within their community. An infant or child will generally have his head kept shaven of hair or a small crop of hair on his head crown. This soon is sculptured to one braided hair plait extended to the rear of the head for young boys and young girls have two braided hair plaits extended forward towards the face often parallel to their eyes. This style is called ozondato, the form of wear being determined by the oruzo membership (patrilineal descent group). The style remains during preadolescence until reaching puberty. Some young girls, with exception, may also have one braided hair plait extended forwards, which means they are one of a pair of twins.
OvaHimba girl
OvaHimba girl dancing
OvaHimba boy
OvaHimba girl, one of a set of twins!
OvaHimba children, both boys and girls, removing ticks from goats.
From pubescence, boys continue to have one braided hair plait.
A young man wearing a braid known as ondatu. Namibia. Photo by Nigel Pavitt
Once they reach puberty, OvaHimba girls will have many otjize textured hair plaits, some arranged to veil the girl’s face.
This girl is going through puberty, a fact made plain by her hairstyle, which has been designed to cover her face and help her avoid male attention. The puffs at the bottom are either goat hair or synthetic.
(In daily practice, the hair plaits are often tied together and held parted back from the face.)
This girl’s braids are arranged to reveal her face, indicating that she’s ready to be married.
Women who have been married for about a year, or have had a child, wear an ornate headpiece called the Erembe, sculptured from sheepskin, with many streams of braided hair, coloured and put in shape with otjize paste.
Married women wearing erembe
Unmarried young men continue to wear one braided hair plait extended to the rear of the head. When Himba men marry, they start wearing turbans, which they never take off unless someone in the village dies. After a death, their heads are shaved. Because the turbans are never removed, things can get a little itchy underneath, so men carry pointed arrow-like instruments to scratch it with.
Married OvaHimba men. #s 1 and 3 wear a scratching implement in their turbans.
Widowed men will remove their cap or head-wrap and expose un-braided hair.
Himba widower. The habit of using a head-scratching implement is hard to break.
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Wow this is the first time I’ve seen a culture where men are required to wear a headdress after marriage.
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every single person in this post is absolutely stunning
Nnedi Okorafor’s novella trilogy Binti has a Himba main character. Otijze is even a plot point.
Now I want to know, what do women do if they are the window?
Ooo, good question! This page tells me that a widowed woman turns her erembe (the antelope hide crown) backwards on her head. The page also tells me that men do remove the turban when they are sleeping. So If you were wondering, like me, how they kept their head/hair clean and cut short, they DO remove the turbans at night, just not, apparently, in public.
It’s a treasure trove of additional information, actually:
“For the Himba women, skincare is a rather laborious task, they can’t use water to wash themselves or cool off, the only thing they can use is the Otjize and they apply it 2 or 3 times a day. In such a dry area, the water is considered sacred by the Himba tribe and only married men are allowed to use it for washing, but only for special religious ceremonies. Apart from covering their bodies with the cream obtained by mixing butterfat and ochre pigment, the Himba women perfume themselves by taking real baths of scented smoke. Inside the huts they light a small fire on which they burn aromatic herbs and the resin obtained from the Commiphora multijuga tree. Smoke is used to purify their bodies and clothes and also for its anti-bacterial effect.
The traditional clothing for the Himba women is… a simple skirt of ombuku goat hide, leaving their breasts exposed and wearing leather sandals. Also the men wear a skirt, though the goat hide is often replaced by more modern textiles and it is matched with non-traditional clothing, such as shirts or jackets…
The Himba women love wearing big adornments, mainly made of leather, iron or copper, and embellished with bone fragments, the most important and precious jewelley is given as a gift to the mother following the birth of her first child. It is a necklace called ohumba, consisting of a white large shell, the symbol of fertility, the shell comes from Angola and is hung between her breasts.“
The humba or ohumba:
^This woman is wearing an ohumba but not an erembe, so I would guess that she has a child but is either not married or has been married for less than a year?
Also, from this page:
“Women wear a large white shell necklace called the ohumba, which is passed from mother to daughter. Equally popular, particularly among married women, are heavy necklaces made from copper or iron wire, often made from electric fencing; some women wear keys and bullets as decoration. The adult Himba women all have beaded anklets called omohanga, where they hide their money; the anklets also serve as a protection against venomous animal bites.”
^woman wearing omohanga
^woman adjusting her omohanga
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Le tisseur de tamis et son aide au métier, Bannalec, Finistère.
A man and a young girl weave sieves in the dining room of a house. 20th century; Bannalec, Finistère (Brittany, France). (More info)
There are a TON of awesome photos of Breton traditional costume from around Quimper in this collection! Examples:
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*The quote is from a poem by Song Dynasty poet 苏轼 (Su Shi), but with "old person" replaced by "man"
[eng by me]
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When you try to present your regency attire and you end up looking like angry Marshal Ney.
All handsewn. Photo and edit by @thistlesandstories
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• Florence, Italy, 2 weeks ago.
• Another fab pic taken by @thestoryalist of Mrs Bo & myself…
• More on our Instagram: @gui_bo @the_angelique_noire
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King Herihor and Queen Nodjmet adore Osiris, detail from the Book of the Dead of Nodjmet.
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Ancient Roman bronze shaving razor (1st-2nd century AD)
