By Valerie Steele
The Encyclopedia of garments and model is the fabricated from a brand new, multidisciplinary box of inquiry and a rare overseas collaboration. The rising box of favor reports, occasionally often called the “new” type historical past, differs considerably from conventional costume background, which tended to target the stylistic research of elite models. against this, modern type stories asks new questions, techniques a wider variety of themes, and attracts at the services of students around the disciplines.
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Methods to cover their hair. Some cut and sew cloth to preshape a head covering or suspend fabric to create a veil that reveals only their eyes. Others loosely wrap fabric over their heads and tie or pin it under their chins. Some veiling garments, such as the burqa, were once worn only by Arab women living in Africa but have spread to other Muslim populations. Jewelry also decorates the hair and head for men and women, including earrings, hair ornaments, and headbands using the same beads, metals, precious and semiprecious gems, ivory, stones, fibers, and many natural materials to fashion them.
Again, the issue relates to varieties of skin color, for lipstick and blush are not as visible on dark complexions as on light-colored ones. Similarly, henna— a common cosmetic in North Africa and the Middle East—is not used by Africans with darker skin, although it is sometimes used on the palms and bottom of the feet, F A S H I O N 21 AFRICA, SUB-SAHARAN: HISTORY OF DRESS which are lighter parts of the body. Both men and women wear scented products, but frequently, African men wear stronger scents than found among most European and American men.