One of my favorite things about Cameroon is that people regularly buy matching cloth for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it is specially printed for the celebrations such as for Women’s Day in March each year or Teachers Day in October.
This year on International Women’s Day.
Teacher’s Day fabric from October 5th 2011
Other times it is just that everyone buys the same cloth and they wear it together to celebrate an occasion. For example a wedding couple will often chose cloth and then everyone connected with the bride or groom will wear an outfit made from it. I even bought lengths of cloth for a former student so that all the groomsmen in his wedding could be in matching shirts.
Fabric bought in Cameroon to celebrate!
Our school choir uniforms always are made from matching cloth which we buy in quantity downtown since what you can buy this month likely won’t be available next month.
Current choir fabric – Jeff both played and sung in it this year.
How fun it is to look through the closet and remember the celebrations connected with all my clothes.
