farah luugo pasto, please read

[Keep it a boqol]

Talk about it. Provide ideas. What do you suggest?

Personally I think something with colour would look good.

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And something that pays respect to our nomadic history.

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The issue is clothing is designed for specific purposes. While I would wear these in a heart beat, they aren't suitable for the cold damp nations our parents decided to flee to. I think we can make new cultural clothing but it takes time and we're preoccupied with issues back home.

i stated many times an easy solution is to wear a thobe and just have another neutral color shawl wrapped over your body on top. you can wear a turban or a kofiyad and your good to go

 

[EyiPunter]

Neither of them said its black culture. I’d have an issue if they were claiming its theirs but they aren’t. The first 2 went to a Somali wedding so why can’t they wear it?

Abyo heres an article of this one madow women caught stealing Somali baati and she saying it black culture

Zara Is Being Accused of Cultural Appropriation AGAIN Over This Dress

They just got called out for co-opting a traditional Somali garment.

www.allure.com

 

[Yared23]

do u actually speak Arabic abayo

Google translate always helps

 

[Mudug_gyal]

These niggas claim Arab but can't speak Arabic

I can

 

[Bazed]

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shout me when these become available I don’t even know what this drip is called or the feather thing on their head

I heard the feathers represent a kill. Though I doubt that since I heard it from someone online. We should revive this fit however, looks good.

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

The irony in this thread is that part of Somali fashion historically is precisely how unprescribed and free it was even in the old photos you see a lot of different variations and styles.

The foreign nations that have a specific outfit associated with them basically took the clothing their aristocrats wore and said it is 'the national dress' this is a recent development.

That said wearing thobes is not ideal we need to get our drip back

 

[Bazed]

i stated many times an easy solution is to wear a thobe and just have another neutral color shawl wrapped over your body on top. you can wear a turban or a kofiyad and your good to go

This is most likely what will occur. Adapting to new environment, the thobe will be absorbed and modified. It's a perfectly good blank canvas in my opinion, we just need something to make it distinctly somali.

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

I heard the feathers represent a kill. Though I doubt that since I heard it from someone online. We should revive this fit however, looks good.

Yes only a waranle who has killed in battle was allowed to wear one. Certain qabiils xitaa shurud bay uu ahayd i.e maa guursan karti ilaa aad yeelato 4 mid oo baal gorayo ah as no man would give his daughter to a coward.

 

[rayxn3]

Abyo heres an article of this one madow women caught stealing Somali baati and she saying it black culture

Zara Is Being Accused of Cultural Appropriation AGAIN Over This Dress

They just got called out for co-opting a traditional Somali garment.

www.allure.com

Saari’s and Abayas get culturally appropriated all the time. Unfortunately when your clothes are popular, people will steal. The examples you gave earlier were cultural appreciation though.

 

[Avalanche]

I can

Stop using google translate

 

[SultanSharif]

Yes only a waranle who has killed in battle was allowed to wear one. Certain qabiils xitaa shurud bay uu ahayd i.e maa guursan karti ilaa aad yeelato 4 xabo as no man would give his daughter to a coward.

Damn it’s crazy how ingrained being a warrior is in our culture

 

[Mudug_gyal]

Stop using google translate

لا ولله انا لغتي الأم هي العربية being in egypt payed out

 

[Bazed]

If we were to wear something like this

But in a colour coordinated manner, I think it would look good. Canes can go, perhaps replace it with a traditional somali sword.

I don't know. I'm spit balling ideas here.

 

[daljirkadahsoon]

Damn it’s crazy how ingrained being a warrior is in our culture

Geeljirnimo requires it! I don't know for all regions but in the old Gadabuursi xeer the minimum was 4 baal gorayo to be considered an acceptable suitor. I believe it might have been the same with neighbouring Ciise

 

[Kisame]

Talk about it. Provide ideas. What do you suggest?

Personally I think something with colour would look good.

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And something that pays respect to our nomadic history.

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The issue is clothing is designed for specific purposes. While I would wear these in a heart beat, they aren't suitable for the cold damp nations our parents decided to flee to. I think we can make new cultural clothing but it takes time and we're preoccupied with issues back home.

Tbh y'all could just wear these for weddings and Somali/African cultural events. You don't have to wear them daily

 

[EyiPunter]

Saari’s and Abayas get culturally appropriated all the time. Unfortunately when your clothes are popular, people will steal. The examples you gave earlier were cultural appreciation though.

I think people in general dont want to talk plainly and dont define certain words because youll really learn what is there true intention are. in this example we will define what the word of appropriated means "take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission". So abyo they are stealing your dhaqan.

 

[Bazed]

Tbh y'all could just wear these for weddings and Somali/African cultural events. You don't have to wear them daily

I get you. I think most people are looking to replace western and Arab clothing with something more somali for their weddings. Most of the time you see this argument it's always under a somali brothers wedding photos

 

[CABDULWALI XASAN.]

It dosent matter kid Shaati is enough

 

[Avalanche]

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But in a colour coordinated manner, I think it would look good. Canes can go, perhaps replace it with a traditional somali sword.

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I don't know. I'm spit balling ideas here.

I will wear this in my nikkah inshallah

 

[Khaem]

Yes only a waranle who has killed in battle was allowed to wear one. Certain qabiils xitaa shurud bay uu ahayd i.e maa guursan karti ilaa aad yeelato 4 mid oo baal gorayo ah as no man would give his daughter to a coward.

Exact same thing for Ciise. A man could not marry till he killed another in battle