 | | 2017-02-03 17:17
From blog Flashback Summer
Intercultural Vintage: Nassau's Mademoiselle dress
What a mystery this dress is! Like, seriously, this garment is a mish-mosh of cultures from all over the world, and the more I have researched the crazier this mystery has become. Yatzitl Martel (the lovely lady in the photo above) posted it as feedback in a selling group, and I was immediately intrigued by the print. It looks like an East African khanga ! You can tell because these native fabrics are printed in rectangular panels with thick borders. (They are also called lessos .) They often have a proverb and a picture of something in the middle. ( Here is a picture of me wearing one the traditional way, as a wrap skirt.) She was kind enough to...
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