Women of African tribe of the Herero wear European dress early 20th century

Herero - numerically small tribe living in Namibia. A distinctive feature of this tribe - unique outfits for women, can not be found anywhere else in the world except the clothes museums.

Women's casual wear Herero dresses copied from European fashionistas time of colonization. Skirt lush, broad, with many petticoats. Sleeves lush. Sometimes wearing a vest top and shawl. At the head of a specially laid scarf resembling cow horns. Ethnographers believe that this headdress dates back to the dress of the skin in the form of a trident that Herero women wore before the missionaries. To cover the nakedness of the Herero women wife taught missionaries from Germany.

























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