Every Friday is Nigerian dress day at the offices here. That means everyone is allowed to wear traditional Nigerian clothes to work instead of stuffy slacks and button up shirts. Traditional Nigerian clothes, in my opinion, are really fancy pajamas. (At least for the men, the women wear very fitted dresses with their hair all wrapped up in fabric... that will be pictures for a different day.) Anyway as I was saying... REALLY FANCY PAJAMAS. Roy just had 2 outfits tailored so that he could wear pajamas to work on Fridays.
(For those interested in fabric... These fabrics are not prints. They are a woven 3-D pattern. I will post closeups later. They are really great fabrics!)
The green outfit was hand embroidered and the blue one was machine emboridered. There was a lot of work put in to these. And the best part is that they weren't to expensive. The fabric (5 1/2 yards of each) was 5,000 nira. That's about $39. (That's what I said mom... 11 yards of this great fabric for $3.55 a yard!!!) And then it was about another 5,000 nira for the tailoring. Oh and each outfit will have a hat that goes with it, but the tailor didn't write down Roy's head measurement the first time and had to get it again when he brought the outfits. So Roy will get the hats on Wednesday. I will take a pics of them when he gets them. Roy is THRILLED with his fancy pajamas. (Can you blame him... I've ALWAYS wanted to get away with wearing pajamas to work!! Not just on Halloween!)
