Veneration: the origin of African fashion
In an interesting article — https://fashionista.com/2018/10/sustainable-ethical-fashion-clothes-aesthetic-style — Dominique Drakeford explains that African slaves were required to wear drab clothing. However, for liturgies and veneration, they had license to make their own clothes and so favoured cloth of vibrant constellations of colour. She writes: “In order to feel liberated and to make a distinction between their…