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Clothing: Lowlanders E-mail
Written by Agaredech Jemaneh   
Wednesday, 21 December 2005
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Lowlands are warm and hot, which duely shape the way the population dresses, light dressing often mini-skirts of sorts, and at some areas ultra-light dressing or semi-naked or even naked with straws covering private parts.

In the lowlands, where the weather is warm and hot, costumes made out of sheep- or goatskin and usually fashioned into miniskirts of sorts, or simply wrapped around a the waist and held fast with straps of leather can be found at some areas. At other areas due to the living condition same kind of costumes with a different material are to be found.

Those groups, whose cultures allow their members to go semi-naked (usually above the waist) as well as fully naked, except for a patch of cloth, leather, or straw to cover their private parts, are covered with body paintings or tattoos in varying designs and colors taken from raw nature. Beads, earrings, bracelets covering the arms in varying degrees, nose-rings, anklets, etc. usually accompany the body paintings and they are, interestingly, used as accompaniments at dances at the same time (particularly those made out of metals).


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