Somali Men Have No Cultural Clothes

[Adeersyber]

Are you stupid?
If you've never lived in Somaliweyn and spent your whole life in the west just say so.

He's doqon if somalis never built any architecture who built the stones ruins all across SL, galbeed, nugaal, etc

 

[Garaad diinle]

Labo go' looks majestic and dignified, it be great if we were to wear it in cultural celebration events. We might add some colours and decoration to make it look even better.

 

[Banadiri Warrior]

Those type of huts are not unique to Somalia.

And what's wrong with that

 

[DALMAR0_0]

We been wearing macawiis since the time of the Akkadians E-V32 is Akkadian so are our swords and features verified by DNA companies

Gunti'hoos and macawiis arent the same walaal

 

[Yami]

We have no cultural clothes other than go and marro and macawiis, all ugly, informal and simple, no variation of colors and style and the rest is Omani influenced

“We have no cultural clothes”

Lists cultural clothes.

“but they’re uuggllyyy”

then wear a khamiis niyahow. Don’t you claim to be Arab anyway? Go honour your E-V32 Banu Hashim ancestors. The rest of us can rock a modernized twist on lamagoodle fashion.

 

[techsamatar]

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. View attachment 294132


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.
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You're talking about the Hawiye and southern thobe, a unique attire exclusively worn by Somalis. I will gladly give anyone my life savings if anyone can find this thobe in any Arab country or Oman as this imbecile who made this thread claims is from. It's similar to how Moroccans have their own distinctive thobe. Just because it's different doesn't make it any less Moroccan or Arab, right?

I plan to remake these thobes in various clan designs and colours in the future, Inshallah. I assure you, it will be the most aesthetically pleasing Islamic thobe, surpassing any others in the market by a hundredfold. I discussed the idea with my grandmother, who mentioned that certain places in South Somalia still uphold the tradition of tailoring these thobes. She emphasized that in the past, sultans used to wear these elegant thobes and turbans until European influence changed men's fashion preferences.

 

[techsamatar]

Anyone know what sultan on left is wearing as vest never seen this anywhere or in any culture.

 

[Aurelian]

We have no cultural clothes other than go and marro and macawiis, all ugly, informal and simple, no variation of colors and style and the rest is Omani influenced

then go and make one.