wear Somali cultural clothes Eid 2023

[𐒋𐒖𐒆𐒔𐒖𐒕𐒈]

This I prefer to the Arab robe, and it was old Somali style, with a nice pair of leather shoes, as seen in old b&w photos of grandparents. I have seen these popularised in Kannada (S India), Aceh (Indonesia) etc.

 

[Heavy Mountains]

Do you think what the arabs chechenya or north african wear their comoners clothing

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Nah i wasn't talking about commoners, what I meant is that I don't think that black cloaks you posted was common in Somalia.

Did Northerners wear it? The only pictures i could find of black cloaks is from Southern Coastal Somalia so probably imported from elsewhere

 

[Dima&Damo]

The men after smoking on that italian pack

 

[Strawberry]

I was wrong and I agree with your comment.

I also agree with most of your statement, apart from the mosque part.

 

[Somali Saayid]

What did they wear under those jackets tho? Is it the same fabric?

 

[Hamzza]

No, thank you

 

[Somali Saayid]

No, thank you

Suit yourself waalal.

Pun not intended.

 

[Strawberry]

What did they wear under those jackets tho? Is it the same fabric?

Okay, so that's one of the things I tried to figure out, and from what I noticed, they wore two types of clothing: one layered, like in this picture, where he's wearing the wrap, and layered over with the white cloak, like in SULDAAN OLOL DIINLE's 3rd picture. The pattern appears to have four main pieces, and the collars had buttons and resembled almost a flat tailored collar, but most tend to stand solid, so I'm betting it's the different fabric they use or how well they took care of it.

Also, I texted my aunt, and she is going to ask the people in the Alindi fabric store, which the majority of them know. When she responds, I will tell you more, but for now, this is my observation as a fashion and textile major, and I hope it helps.

 

[Dima&Damo]

Where is the madhibaan or tuumaal when you need them

 

[Barni]

You should as it is far more underrepresented than dirac and guntinno

 

[Garaad diinle]

Is this eternal drip.

 

[Somali Saayid]

Is this eternal drip.

It's the Somali cat in the hat.

 

[Danakiil]

There's no way I'm surviving in some labo go'odle in the cold April month of Canadian eid. I'm not getting hyperthermia over some drip

 

[Internet Nomad]

This is such a great thread it makes me happy that there are hopes of a somali cultural revoultion where we can embrance our culture in somali and muslim way. Some COONS tend to think Arab = muslim

Hopefully one day we can transition from that acursed latin script to the Osmaniya script

 

[Africanus]

This is such a great thread it makes me happy that there are hopes of a somali cultural revoultion where we can embrance our culture in somali and muslim way. Some COONS tend to think Arab = muslim

Hopefully one day we can transition from that acursed latin script to the Osmaniya script

I completely agree. But should we find a more neater and older version Script that we used to use (which there is evidence of) and collect it into a modern day alphabet we could use. Then I say we use that.

 

[Internet Nomad]

I completely agree. But should we find a more neater and older version Script that we used to use (which there is evidence of) and collect it into a modern day alphabet we could use. Then I say we use that.

we should get any native scripts, ge'ez and a bit of arabic and mix all of them into one script which would embody the somali culture.

 

[Chaseyourdreamzz]

I always see other Africans wearing there cultural clothes on Eid something we should emulate

 

[Africanus]

we should get any native scripts, ge'ez and a bit of arabic and mix all of them into one script which would embody the somali culture.

There has been evidence of an old script in ruins of Northern Somalia which was based on vowel like modern day alphabets. We could simply use that instead of having some bastardized version of a script like that.

 

[Qeelbax]

Guntiino and Dirac are doable because you won't stand out too much, but Somali men showing up to the mosque with the two white sheets attire will look out of place.

There’s other ones. This one is my favorite

or this one

 

[Somali Saayid]

There’s other ones. This one is my favorite
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or this one
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I'm going to the masjid draped into white pieces of cloth? No thanks, I'm dressing up like the Sultans and Boqors of the past. You wouldn't notice the difference between me and kenaadid.