
Importance Of Traditional Attire
Traditional wears also known as folk costume, regional costume, national costume, traditional garment, or traditional regalia are clothes or jewelries associated with a geographic area or group of people or clan, rooted from their ancestors as a means of identification. It can also indicate social, marital or religious status.
Traditional or folk dress has played and still plays a very important symbolic role in our lives especially in the preservation of national values and cultural heritage. The traditional attire also brings families together and keeps the culture alive especially, in this cultural displaced era.
Based on the significance of the traditional wear, it is worn in occasion like festivals, weddings, harvest, and other special occasions.
Everyone has an ancestral attire they are associated with, it is more or less an identity in other words, the traditional costumes are as different as the people who wear them.
The United States which are believed to be people without a traditional root is however known for western wears, and i can arrogantly tell you that those western wears we celebrate are the traditional attire of the westerners especially the denim jeans, cowboy hats, and flannel shirts. How ever, the cohabitation exercise practiced in America has made it difficult for one to identify the true folks attires from that of nationals by marriage, citizenship by birth, citizenship through derivation, citizenship through acquisition, and through naturalization.
The traditional attire gives a sense of nationalistic pride and security, as well as confidence in a fashion sense, especially when you come from a country with rich cultural heritage.
Confidently wearing and celebrating your cultural attire even in the diaspora satisfies that feeling of certain duty to represent your country in fashion and shows how proud you are of your traditional clothes and that you strongly represent your people and will not let your culture, your people, die out, even in a country with racial history of shaming people’s cultural values and identity.
I hereby encourage everyone to appropriate, value and wear their traditional outfits as often as possible, that would add more spice and fun to fashion entirely.