Fashion Roundtable
The Cloth was used as a type of forex in trade with the Portuguese and Dutch as early as the sixteenth Century. Locally produced cloth and cheaper European imports had been assembled into new styles to accommodate the growing elite class of West Africans and resident gold and slave traders. There was an exceptionally sturdy tradition of cloth-weaving in Oyo and the areas inhabited by the Igbo folks. Fashion, or one’s personal private style, functions as a “societal formation always combining two opposite principles. It is a socially acceptable and safe approach to distinguish oneself from others and, on the…