It's very common in Africa to see women dressed in brightly-coloured outfits, often in two pieces, with perhaps an extra strip of material that's used to carry a child. Wildly colourful men's shirts are also quite a feature. In Togo, however, what is really striking is the number of men wearing what look like pajamas to a Western visitor - that is, a shirt and pants made from a patterned fabric, which looks almost comical on a tall man, but which locally is very fashionable. The market cloth-sellers are mostly women, but there were plenty of men purchasing fabric for their next outfits, in colours I would never dare to wear, but they carried it off with aplomb!
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on Oct 10, 2003
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