THE YORUBA'S VARIETIES OF ATTIRE, THE SOUTHERN PART OF NIGERIA
The Yoruba have legendary types of clothes that make them distinct from other cultures around them. They take immense pride in their attire, for which they are well known for. Clothing materials traditionally come from processed cotton by traditional weavers. They believe that the type of clothes worn by a man depicts his personality and social status, and that different occasions require different clothing outfits.
Typically, The Yoruba have a very wide range of materials used to make clothing, the most basic being the Aá¹£o-Oke, which is a hand loomed cloth of different patterns and colors sewn into various styles.[97] and which comes in very many different colors and patterns. Aso Oke comes in three major styles based on pattern and coloration.
Agbada clothing historically worn by the Yoruba
Man in basic Yoruba traditional regalia
Clothing in Yoruba culture is gender sensitive. For men's' wear, they have Bùbá, Esiki and Sapara, which are regarded as Èwù Àwòtélè or under wear, while they also have Dandogo, Agbádá, Gbariye, Sulia and Oyala, which are also known as Èwù Àwòlékè / Àwòsókè or over wears. Some fashionable men may add an accessory to the Agbádá outfit in the form of a wraparound (Ìbora)
Women also have different types of dresses. The most commonly worn are ÃŒró (wrapper) and Bùbá (blouse–like loose top). Women also have matching Gèlè (head gear) that must be put on whenever the ÃŒró and Bùbá is on. Just as the cap (Fìlà ) is important to men, women’s dressing is considered incomplete without Gèlè. It may be of plain cloth or costly as the women can afford. Apart from this, they also have ìborùn (Shawl) and ÃŒpèlé (which are long pieces of fabric that usually hang on the left shoulder and stretch from the hind of the body to the fore).
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