Heritage • Tailoring • Senegalese Style Senegalese Kaftan and the Boubou Tradition: History, Craft and Modern Style The Senegalese kaftan is often associated with elegance, structure, and cultural presence. To understand it properly, it helps to see it within the broader world of Senegalese and West African robe traditions, especially the boubou. In today’s fashion language, many people use Senegalese kaftan to describe a refined men’s outfit rooted in Senegalese tailoring. Historically and culturally, it is closely connected to the wider boubou tradition, one of the most recognizable garment traditions...
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