Wearing Style in Southern Tigrai

Travelers chance to chat with new people and walk about. while men crop up. Talk with hair-crested boys and girls with circular hair bunch is by far enjoyable. The inhabitants are friendly to visitors. This makes journey over the area more easier viewers are to see distinctive dressing styles. Both sexes wear loom-made cotton attires and sandal-like leather shoes. Ladies plait their hair


Ladies put on long sleeved full flowing skirts that is often richly embroidered at the neck, cleft and hem. The ornament adorning the neck continues slender down to cover the front until the border. Patterned threads and silver beads are studded to the ornament for well look.



In addition to the full skirt, they drape pieces of cloth and tie their waists with long ribbon-like clothes also embroidered at the rim. They as well dye their eyes with Kohl and feet plus hands with Sasila.

Men on their parts, drape shawls and shroud their lower bodies with other pair of sheets also sewn at the core. They too tie their waists with lengthy-ribbon like clothes and adorned themselves more by wearing braided leather around their wrists. Girls wear full- skirted clothes while boys veil only their shoulders.

The azebo valley is reputed for its important bird grounds, sex appeal farming-folks who are well identified by their embroidered dressing styles and traditional wrestling, which require specific talents. Religious festivals are ideal incidents to invite wrestling.

Mekhoni, Machare, Balla and Chercher are the major towns of the plain whose market days offer opportunities to sense various customary interactions. The bazaars draw in the Afars. The mountain-farmed valley where such interesting people reside is thus new to forge brand fascinations.

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