{"id":408,"date":"2005-05-10T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/nigerian-outfit\/"},"modified":"2005-05-10T08:41:38","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T08:41:38","slug":"nigerian-outfit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2005\/05\/10\/nigerian-outfit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian outfit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other week I decided I needed some more shirts, so that I could actually make it through a week without having to do washing. I wandered off down to the Area 7 Shopping Centre (just down the road), bought some fabric and found a tailor. So for ₦700 (\u00a32.70) he sewed the fabric up into a very nice shirt.<\/p>\n

He did such a good job that I asked him to make up some other fabric into a traditional Nigerian outfit, I went and collected it yesterday:
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You can’t really see the embroidery in the picture, men really seem to go in for fancy fabrics and lots of ornamentation on their clothes here.<\/p>\n

The outfit is all very loose and comfortable, in fact it feels more like pyjamas than something you’d wear to go out. Now I just need an occasion to wear it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other week I decided I needed some more shirts, so that I could actually make it through a week without having to do washing. I wandered off down to the Area 7 Shopping Centre (just down the road), bought some fabric and found a tailor. So for ₦700 (\u00a32.70) he sewed the fabric up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}