By: Jemimah Chungu
The maxi dress is a beautiful long floor culture dress. It is a trend garbed at events such as bridal dresses worn by the bride, baby showers, pageants, Lobola gowns and traditional wedding dresses like kitchen parties, fashion events, culture events, cocktail events, church events and other events.
The maxi dress trend is an original African fashion trend that has been in existence since the birth of culture and religion in Africa. The maxi dress is also worn in daily lives of many people as per culture or religious instructions. Many would assume the maxi dress is only for women, however even men of certain ethnic and religious groups have got a fashion quite alike to the beautiful dress.
This catchy trend has stolen the hearts of many being created with sassiness in many different fashion styles. The latest maxi dress trend is categorizing most fashionable dresses in Africa and is really a dominating trend.
African countries especially Central and Southern African countries apparel the maxi dresses in the most elevated trend especially at events. The maxi dress all over fashion blogs and other fashion sites is called in local languages in the south and central as; bubus, isinene, Shweshwe, khisa, mosese, leso and others.
West African maxi dress is traditional and religious. It is a focused fashion like the east African region fashion such that their traditional and religious fashion are centred on long dresses in the latest fashion trends they can be “umbrellad” in the maxi dress.
West Africa has maxi dresses trend. It is traditional garments agabada for men and women, jalabiya for men and women and others, and in east Africa, women are proudly bolted to maxi dresses referred to as kanga, and kanzu for men, Dirac, and the gomesio, and busuuti.
The West, East and even North African countries have a maxi like trend of fashion called the Abaya.
The Abaya trends are one of the most eye catching and flamboyant trends in the fashion world. Among others are; the velvet Abaya trend which is a more bold, but very interesting Abaya trend that is also very popular among fashion bloggers. The two-tone trend Wrap Abaya are also a great chic and Abaya style puff sleeve trend full of life and loud statements (Fustany)
African fashion is one of the most iconic and worth following styles in any season. African women, men, boys and girls tastefully slay in the trendy maxi dress and other African styles.
