Fashion Show: Brought to you by Chitenge

Chitenge is the traditional fabric of this area of Africa, and it is absolutely beautiful!  There are vendors at every market selling dozens of patterns in bright colours and prints, and you can purchase two metres of chitenge for between 1200 and 1500 Malawian Kwacha, which is equivalent to three to four Canadian dollars.  As someone who loves art, colour, designing my own clothes, and “has” to walk past these stalls weekly, I ended up amassing quite the collection of chitenge!  Thankfully, my housemates are similarly challenged in the area of self-restraint, and we banded together to design clothing and get it made by a tailor in the market area of the city.  And, as a house full of girls is wont to do, we then had a fashion show so we could share the outcomes with you here!

P.S. The tailor is still busily working on a few (this is relative…) more items, so there may be a follow-up post in the future!