Ladies of Delight Blog

 Happy Friday lovelies! We're talking about African Prints today🙌🙌😀😀. Enjoy!

Nigerian traditional clothing reflects the culture of the different ethnic groups. Many Nigerians wear ‘trads’ for special occasions like weddings, work on Friday, religious gatherings 'Church or Mosque’ and so on. The local fabric includes Ankara fabric a 100% cotton filled with vibrant patterns and African motifs.
These prints are also called African prints or African wax prints and have become internationally accepted.

Ankara fabrics are made through an Indonesian wax-resist dyeing technique called BATIK. The fabrics come with an imprint of the quality/product on it.

There is no doubt that in the fashion world, African prints has become a trend and has even become internationally accepted. The beauty of African prints is that you can make it into diverse clothings ,materials, accessories.

With innovations and needs to make the Ankara fabric more useful and trendy, accessories like bags, shoes, pieces of jewelry and so on came about.

You can make the ankara fabric into jumpsuits, dresses, skirts and blouses or even used as an additive.
People have become really innovative making Ankara into pieces of jewelry as well as throw pillows.

The men are not left out too as Ankara can be used in various stylish ways for ties, lapel pins, blazers, shorts and so on. 

How well are you rocking your African prints? Be confident to showcase the African culture by combining nice colors of African prints  in your dresses and accessories.
Happy Weekend!