Category: TRADITIONAL DRESSES

Lovely Sepedi Traditional Wedding Dresses Designs

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Pedi traditional wear is synonymous with colour and vibrancy. The Pedi people, much like the Ndebele, are renowned for their bead work, designs and rich colours. Traditional outfits for women vary and can range from calf length skirts, pleated blouses and long voluminous dresses. Doeks or headscarfs also form part of the clothing. Common designs found on Pedi clothing includes; pleats, embroidery or ribbon trimmings. Beadwork is also big for this tribe and often accompanies traditional attire

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Modern Zulu Traditional Wedding Dress for women

African Zulu bride wedding traditions brings families together and enables people to reconnect with friends. Tradition reinforces values such as freedom, faith, integrity, a good education, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and the value of being selfless. Tradition offers a chance to say “thank you” for the contribution that someone has made. They also enable us to showcase the principles of our Founding Fathers, celebrate diversity, The groom’s family will welcome the bride’s family and show them the room in which they can stay. In the midday the ceremony will start both bride and groom wear their traditional clothes.


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Xhosa wedding traditional dresses 2020 For Couples

Xhosa Attire is another stripe of greatness in Africa yet the world’s style trade. Like existing notable African prints; Kent, capital of Turkey and kitenge, Xhosa traditional wear has AN exceptional history going back to pre-pilgrim times and an interesting place to begin from the Xhosa people of South-Africa.

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Swazi Traditional Attire in South African

It’s not often a Swati Bride gets in touch for a feature. Therefore, you can only imagine my excitement when Nolwazi first tagged me on Instagram. It felt as if I had won the lottery. For those of you that are photography addicts please pardon me on this one. From her writing, one can tell Nolwazi is such a genuine person and it would have been a travesty for me to refuse this feature based on photography alone. Plus I’ve never featured a Swati Bride before so this one had to make it to the pages of Bontle Bride.

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Traditional Wedding Dresses Xhosa In South Africa

groom’s family will begin negotiating the marriage and lobola with the bride’s family. is not a ‘ Xhosa but a means of establishing a link between the two families. The size of lobola varies considerably depending on the relative wealth and status of the families, the advantage to gain from the marriage link, and the desirability of the bride.


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