What is the national dress of South Africa?

Traditional South African clothing varies between different tribes. However the common garb would be a 2 piece animal hide skirt usually made from buck hide. Woman where long beaded necklaces which extend over there breasts. Ankle and wrist bead wear is also common. Men in power would pride themselves with extra covering fron cheetah skin. That type of dressing would apply to Zulu related tribes including Xhosa, Sotho etc. Some tribes had major differences in dressing like the Ndebeles whose ladies wind copper around their entire bodies. Venda men wear Scottish skirts.

Today South Africa is a multi-cultural country populated by both native Africans and many long standing immigrant cultures. In general nearly the entire population wears western clothing. The main exception being those traditional Muslims who wear Arabic garments.

There is a booming fashion industry in South Africa with international brands like Guess, Levi, Soviet, Diesel etc crowding the market.

There are also many European-South Africans, Indian-South Africans, Portugese-South Africans, Malay-South Africans, Chinese-South Africans and so on. Each has a different cultural attire based on their land of origin.

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