“The sophisticated Somali is also very vain about his personal appearance. A man earning good wages will spend most of them on the adornment of his person. Bright turbans, shirts, handkerchiefs, and coats, all of silk, and imposing walking sticks are most popular with the wage-earner of Berbera or Aden; and a Somali dandy will devote hours to combing his hair before a looking glass. Nor are his efforts in vain: for the general effect of all this adornment is most attractive. A Somali with aquiline nose, small lips, large glittering brown eyes, flashing white teeth, stately carriage, and the
aristocratic look common to so many of his race,”