Khaem
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Most wore simple clothes. It's just that as industrialization/modernisation took place people started to wear the clothing that was exclusive to the high class.
The western Suit was worn by nobles in England and France and eventually became widely worn during the industrial revolution as it became mass produced through machinery. The higher class then distinguished themselves by wearing hand made tailored suits with all the fancy hats like the long top hats whereas the working class wore factory made suits made of cheap materials and loosely fitted.
The Arabs wore just random sheets until they decided to modernise their clothing's last century. Alot of modern Arab clothing comes from the Turks. The turks themselves took their iconic Fez hat from maghrebi north Africa.
All cultures are influenced by each other idk why people are so critical of Somalis wearing things that are influenced by foreigners. It just shows how connected somali were to the outside world and how we became a hub that took in elements of cultures as far as India.
The general Somali population wore the two white sheets wrapped around the body in several ways. This isn't special, most culture's just dressed in white sheets. Famously the Romans used to wear the toga which was literally a white t shirt and a long white sheet wrapped around the body.
Somali upper class of men started to wear clothings that much of the Islamic world at the time started to wear.
Each Islamic peoples had their own variations, small or large differences.
Somalis put their own special embroidery on it as you can see on the front. The clothing itself looks classy and modern and should be the modern look that somalis should be wearing. It was the clothing of much of our sultans and other leaders in the past century or so. Other cultures started wearing the clothings of their nobility after modernity and ditched their dry basic bottom class clothes.
For some reason somalis went the opposite way and left this behind for the simple clothes of a white Macawiis and shirt. Not even a white cloth wrapped around the body like our ancestors did. Just cheap shit.
I know there's lots of Somali buisnesses that specialises in clothing. Anyone who starts producing these back home in somalia would make proper bank wlhi.
Somali men need to rebrand their traditional clothings like all other cultures have been doing post industrialization. Who have been taking the classy clothing of their upper class/nobles and making it something all people can wear thanks to factory producing it.
Somalis should do the same and bring this back.
The western Suit was worn by nobles in England and France and eventually became widely worn during the industrial revolution as it became mass produced through machinery. The higher class then distinguished themselves by wearing hand made tailored suits with all the fancy hats like the long top hats whereas the working class wore factory made suits made of cheap materials and loosely fitted.
The Arabs wore just random sheets until they decided to modernise their clothing's last century. Alot of modern Arab clothing comes from the Turks. The turks themselves took their iconic Fez hat from maghrebi north Africa.
All cultures are influenced by each other idk why people are so critical of Somalis wearing things that are influenced by foreigners. It just shows how connected somali were to the outside world and how we became a hub that took in elements of cultures as far as India.
The general Somali population wore the two white sheets wrapped around the body in several ways. This isn't special, most culture's just dressed in white sheets. Famously the Romans used to wear the toga which was literally a white t shirt and a long white sheet wrapped around the body.
Somali upper class of men started to wear clothings that much of the Islamic world at the time started to wear.
Each Islamic peoples had their own variations, small or large differences.
Somalis put their own special embroidery on it as you can see on the front. The clothing itself looks classy and modern and should be the modern look that somalis should be wearing. It was the clothing of much of our sultans and other leaders in the past century or so. Other cultures started wearing the clothings of their nobility after modernity and ditched their dry basic bottom class clothes.
For some reason somalis went the opposite way and left this behind for the simple clothes of a white Macawiis and shirt. Not even a white cloth wrapped around the body like our ancestors did. Just cheap shit.
I know there's lots of Somali buisnesses that specialises in clothing. Anyone who starts producing these back home in somalia would make proper bank wlhi.
Somali men need to rebrand their traditional clothings like all other cultures have been doing post industrialization. Who have been taking the classy clothing of their upper class/nobles and making it something all people can wear thanks to factory producing it.
Somalis should do the same and bring this back.