Dress Like a Kenyan

How you dress here is tantamount the amount of respect you are paying to whomever it is that you are associating with that day. No matter how rich or how poor, Kenyans always dress their best when out of the house. Suit jackets are quite popular with both men and women and worn almost everyday with all types of attire. Trousers and button down shirts are the provance of men, while most women wear long skirts, blouses, or t shirts depending on where they are heading (as such I have been wearing a skirt now for one month straight). Only young uncircumcised boys and fat toursists from Florida wear shorts. Tribal couture varies depending on location inthe country. In Masai land traditional dress for both men and women involves brightly colored cloths wrapped into dresses and shirts and red checked blankets around the shoulders for warmth. The ear lobes are gradually stretched into about 2 inch holes to accommodate vast quantites of homemade beaded earing and necks and wrists are adorned with the same. Shoes are varied though the more rural folk prefer shoes made from recycled tires (this is about the only recycling done in kenya). The shoes break your feet to fit them.