Fashion Show!

So on Saturday we had a fashion/cultural show at my hotel.  It's called the Festival for Fashion, Arts & Peace, and it was pretty excellent. There was a craft show featuring crafts actually made in South Sudan, and then the fashion show which also featured performances from a youth group that performs tribal dances from different parts of South Sudan.  The fashion show had traditional clothes, as well as new modern clothes inspired by traditional fabrics and styles.  We got to see some of South Sudan's new fashion talent, and generally have a really good time. I'll try and put more pictures up on Facebook, but here are a couple of the show.

One of the tribal dances:

The traditional fashion show:

 Beadwork:

 Traditional necklace or decoration (apparently given ceremonially sometimes I've heard?).

 The modern fashion show, often inspired by traditional African fabrics:

 And special guest, Miss South Sudan, who will be competing at the Miss Universe pageant later this year:

 Some dude fashions were interspersed as well:

 More modern/traditional inspired clothes:

 And finally, to wrap up the show a final dance by the dance troupe:

 Check out the little kid in the back, he was drumming like a pro with the rest of them (who were all several feet taller).

It was a pretty cool night.  There is an album I've shared on Facebook with more photos that a friend with a better camera took for better shots of some of the clothes.  I'm off to Kejo Kiji tomorrow for a one day trip, back Thursday, so hopefully I'll have some more pictures to share of other parts of the country then!