I just find them so handsome especially with the traditional clothes and that ul
is anyone else attracted to geeljires?
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bruhh u telling me this ain't, tf not all of us wear baggy clothing most geeljires wore white macawis and go, for fighting, it's easier than baggy clothingsThat is not "traditional clothes". This is:
That was sometimes when they were getting down to business or doing laborious work but overall, on a random chill day they liked to wear their robes like togas. This has been pretty detailedly recorded by people who met and saw them during the 19th and 20th centuries, saaxiib:
They generally carried around some cloth like this and wore it whatever way was convenient at any given time. Hence the nickname for them by their usually reer magaal relatives like "Lamagoodle" (having two cloths) or "Maryoole" (having cloth).
Niyahow, look at what you're posting. They're literally wearing exactly what I posted with just the upper half, in some cases, tied around their waists.
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One question I have is why are they still carrying spears well into the 19th century lol?That is not "traditional clothes". This is:
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bruhhh, lama goodle could also mean go and white skirt, i don't know about u on but almost all my clan wore white skirt and Go, all cushitic wear dat white skirt
most norherners were skirt and not baggy clothings
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Yeah I find all races attractive.
Probably just tradition and sticking to old ways. What I find interesting is how much armor seems to have disappeared probably with the introduction of guns. In the 16th century the Futux al-Xabasha makes it clear that the both the Muslim forces heavily populated by Somalis and the Christian Xabash wore everything from chainmail to breast plates to iron helmets:
By the 19th century, though, even Xabashis seem to have completely abandoned armor:
would love to see the armor sad it gone foreverProbably just tradition and sticking to old ways. What I find interesting is how much armor seems to have disappeared probably with the introduction of guns. In the 16th century the Futux al-Xabasha makes it clear that the both the Muslim forces heavily populated by Somalis and the Christian Xabash wore everything from chainmail to breast plates to iron helmets:
By the 19th century, though, even Xabashis seem to have completely abandoned armor:
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Tbh, spears were effective until artillery and machine guns were invented in the 20th century. The Maximin machine gun was very deadly and what the British used in the Darawiish wars, they would have got swarmed and easily defeated otherwise.
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I don’t think Somali nomads ever wore armor, the settled Muslim kingdoms may have been ruled by Somalis and had urbanised Somalis along with other Muslim ethnicities, but they are a different people to Somali nomads.Probably just tradition and sticking to old ways. What I find interesting is how much armor seems to have disappeared probably with the introduction of guns. In the 16th century the Futux al-Xabasha makes it clear that the both the Muslim forces heavily populated by Somalis and the Christian Xabash wore everything from chainmail to breast plates to iron helmets:
By the 19th century, though, even Xabashis seem to have completely abandoned armor:
If you mean day to day nomads about their business just wearing chainmail or plate then I doubt that too. Not like that was the case with Bedouins either. But read the book, walaal. Doesn't give the impression that the thousands of men in the Imam's army and the previous Walashma dynasty's army are all some well-off reer magaals. The majority come off as pretty tribal reer miyi types to me and they all seemed to have armor.
I don't know what we're arguing about, walaal. They wore 1-2 cloths they had pretty much however they pleased at any given time in both the north and the south. The first saaxiib I shared was a Daraawiish from Woqooyi and I'm fairly certain you shared one or two saaxiibs from Koonfur yourself earlier. I ought to know, I collected those pictures years ago.
Even in your pics you can see what I'm talking about where they either let the upper half of their large cloth fall down or tie it around their waist so as to probably keep it out of the way when fighting or doing anything laborious then they also wear the upper baggy half or have a second cloth for that:
The same thing occurred in Koonfur plenty:
These same types of people would either choose to continue to wear it like that or like this:
There is nothing I've seen in any literature from either local or ajanabi scholars that says there was some established "white macawiis" style that was separate from the style of wearing these white cloths like Greco-Roman togas which seems the most common everywhere from north to south. And this wasn't even the only two ways people wore them as you can see above in the pics both you and I shared. Maryooles wore the stuff however they pleased at any given time probably due to convenience or preference.
But again, look at this example from Majeerteenia:
When just chilling the man wears the upper "baggy" half you keep mentioning but when the man is ready to fight with his spear and shield he takes off the upper half and seems to tie it around his waist, probably for convenience. The "baggy" toga-esque style of wearing the cloths was ubiquitous everywhere and very common, though. But then again so were some other styles like having one cloth like a "skirt" and another separate one for your upperbody when you wanted it.
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Get married. Your very horny.
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It could have been that the Imam and the previous dynasty supplied the tribal men with armor for the war.
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