African Fashion

Get ideas from different Modern and Traditional wears designs. There are modern traditional clothing styles for couples, ladies, men and children.

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    20 Elegant Brides in Kente Styles For Engagement

    One of the things we love about the Ghana traditional marriage or engagement ceremony is the outfit worn by the bride and groom. The fabric used to make outfits for Ghanaian couples for their ceremony is “Kente”. Kente is the Ghanaian traditional cloth; handwoven with strips of silk and cotton and worn for special occasions…

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    20 Latest Modern Xhosa Attires for Ladies

    The Xhosa traditional attire is usually made from Umbhaco which is 100% cotton. The original Umbhaco (Imibhaco) was a brown skirt with five rows of black strips separated by beaded rows of buttons. These days the Umbhaco fabric is usually white with black stripes with embroidery and beadwork in between, though you can still see…

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    20 Elegantly Designed Shweshwe Dresses for Makoti

    When it comes to designing traditional shweshwe dresses having an active creative mind is a compulsory ingredient. Even though the shweshwe fabric is predominantly blue, there are other colours to work with like green, red, orange and even brown. Yes the shweshwe fabric pattern is circular, but what other fabric can you combine it with?…

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    20 Trendy Ankara Styles With Sneakers

    Whether you choose to call them African print dresses, shweshwe dresses, chitenge dresses or kitenge dresses, they are all the same. Today we are looking at cute trending but simple short ankara dresses that you can wear with sneakers.Yes you can choose to wear a cute ankara gown with shoes, sandals or slippers, but there’s…