The New Normal? — Why Married, Single Women Are Closing Fashion Gaps

Culture is time-bound. It’s flexible and can adapt to trends, habits, events in a society. The same can be said of fashion. The way people live and dress is transient.

Before now for instance, Nigerians — like many other Africans — always distinguished the married from the single by titles, lifestyle and mode of dressing due to how much they cherish family life.

This may not be a universal conformity but it’s common phenomenon in African culture. Family life is treasured, prioritised and flaunted.

But westerniaation seems to be eroding most of the Nigerian family emblem in the manner married women dress nowadays.

In the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000 the head wear (gele), wrapper blouse and beads were the common fashion piece that belonged to wives and mothers.

A married woman is identified by these traditional items. It was prideful to always dress in the Iro, Buba, George and Hollandis wrappers. Then, the wearing of these traditional pieces indicated that a woman is no longer on the ‘shelf’ but has been ‘acquired’ by her husband...Read more: https://www.crispng.com/the-new-normal-why-married-single-women-are-closing-fashion-gaps/