20 Beautiful Habesha Dresses Plus How to Tell the Original
The Ethiopian traditional dress, also known as the Habesha dress has been worn by women in Ethiopia and Eritrea for centuries.
This traditional dress is specially worn during occasions like the Ethiopian New Year, Christmas, Easter, weddings, baby showers and other occasions.
How to Identify the Original Habesha Attire
We are aware that the Chinese have started making counterfeit Habesha dresses by just printing the “Tibeb” pattern on fabric.
According to Marta Debouch, owner of Yarrow Hand Woven Design:
“They are stealing our culture that we have had for years by creating fake or artificial Ethiopian traditional dresses.It isn’t about the money or the business, but it is generally damaging the positive image of Ethiopia, when another country starts making our own traditionally handmade clothes.”
So we need to emphasize that the original habesha dress has the Tibeb pattern sewn or embroidered and not printed. Also the fabric is carefully spun into yarn by the “Dewari” before going for hand sewing.
The habesha kemis dress is made from this comfortable cotton of different types: saba, fetil, menen, weldeyes…
There is also a difference between the original ethiopian dress cost and the counterfeit or chinese made.
The Original Habesha kemis costs from 3000 -10000 birr ($76-$253) depending the design or quality while the counterfeit costs about 1000 birr ($25).
And no doubt, there is a grace you get from wearing the original habesha kemis that you can’t get from any counterfeit.
If you sell or make original habesha dresses then you should be on clipkulture.
Check out the lovely habesha dresses below worn by beautiful people selected from clipkulture’s collection:
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