Partying in Nigeria comes with a lot of excitement and unlimited fun. Asides from tasty food and music, the eye-popping fashion style you see for free are worthy of time expended at the venue. As a guest attending any Owambe, you should endeavour to be the cynosure attracting attention with your “Pepper Them” look. This sometimes proves to be more tasking than you can imagine.
In choosing the most appropriate style, as a lady, you have to put into consideration so many physical, emotional and financial preferences. Since you will be at the party for hours, you should be sure to pick styles that you will be comfortable in. Your dress plays a very important part as it is only assisted by whatever accessory, make-up hair or nails you have on. The style is just as important as the food and music that make an Owambe party groovy.
In exhibiting style of great artistic value, the runway was a perfect place to finally showcase them. A fashion designer has to watch some of these shows to get his/her next big idea. It is normal to find Western styles creep into African fashion style slowly than you can imagine. However, dressing to a traditional event, especially a wedding means you need to portray your culture. It has gone beyond that! Now, the runway has influenced our Owambe parties. The first headache of a party host now is to ensure that her style is not spotted by her guests. Therefore, the host has to go the extra mile with her design. Aso-Ebi, which is a normal element for an Owambe and the cost of those materials means you have to get the best of every piece. This has called up western styles in our traditional outfits.
Of course, celebrities are the moving factors in the showing of styles when they pop up at parties. No one looks at the likes of Shaffy Bello, Iyabo Ojo, Mercy Aigbe, Toyin Abraham, Ini Edo, Wunmi Toriola, Mide Martins, Eniola Ajao, Nancy Isime, and Yemi Alade without being enthralled by their infectious style and fashion. Why? Being top personalities and actresses who are featured in several appearances, they are always seen in different parties.
Some of the favourite celebrities are obliged to attend more than 3 parties per week.
Imagine the work they put into styling and tailoring to make them appear beautiful and fashionable. The craze of sliding from plain nicely cut aso-ebi styles, to the use of additional trimmers, came first before the use of shines and slimmers.
With constant visits to parties, celebrities always show up in dresses well adorned with stone frills that will leave you in awe. This stone works can keep a designer on an outfit for hours maybe days. With the way dresses are being cut and styled, the stone fixing is an additional work that makes dresses glow and catch attention.
Just recently, another western fashion idea was added to the Owambe fashion parade, corset. Yes/oh. In case you don’t know, the corset style is still very much in vogue. The tube corset dress worn by our beloved celebrity ladies make their aso-ebi the perfect style at all times. To reduce skin let out, celebrity women are seen styling skin nets for a more conservative look.
In effect, to the constant style unravelling in numerous Owambe parties, different styles such as the off shoulders slit dress, ruffle sleeves, tube corset dress, sleeveless shoulder cape dress, cold shoulder side slit dresses and mono sleeve dresses are on constant display.
To get outcomes just like the celebrity ladies, you must first get a very good fashion designer to avoid the “what I ordered versus what I get” calamity. It is also important to pick styles that can serve a dual purpose of partying and attendance at church services.
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