The eurochimpanzee has been a burdensome monkey on my back, stomach, legs, feet, and head from my wearing the panzee's clothing. When I was mentally hooked to the matrix of false belief, every time the panzee released his homosexual greek god nike air jordan sneakers or the traveling homosexual marco polo clothes, I would waste all my hard working money to be the first person in my neighborhood to wear the panzee's garbage. After all these years, I have compiled so much garbage that it has become a hazard. As I'm breaking free from the matrix of false belief, I now feel the toxicity burning all over my body while wearing the panzee's clothes. I need comfortable clothes to wear that will make my body feel normal, not like it is on fire. I need clothing that will make me feel at peace. Clothing that represents me. I need Kmtyw clothing. If anyone of you absolute Kmtyws can provide me with an Kmtyw online clothing store, then I would not have to suffer any more burning from wearing the panzee's toxic clothes. Your assistance in extinguishing the fire is appreciated. Peace
QuoteGray Sun;230946 wrote: The eurochimpanzee has been a burdensome monkey on my back, stomach, legs, feet, and head from my wearing the panzee's clothing. When I was mentally hooked to the matrix of false belief, every time the panzee released his homosexual greek god nike air jordan sneakers or the traveling homosexual marco polo clothes, I would waste all my hard working money to be the first person in my neighborhood to wear the panzee's garbage. After all these years, I have compiled so much garbage that it has become a hazard. As I'm breaking free from the matrix of false belief, I now feel the toxicity burning all over my body while wearing the panzee's clothes. I need comfortable clothes to wear that will make my body feel normal, not like it is on fire. I need clothing that will make me feel at peace. Clothing that represents me. I need Kmtyw clothing. If anyone of you absolute Kmtyws can provide me with an Kmtyw online clothing store, then I would not have to suffer any more burning from wearing the panzee's toxic clothes. Your assistance in extinguishing the fire is appreciated. Peace
Go on webuyblack.com you might find something interesting.
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@scamara ships boxes from Ghana
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Don't sleep on making your own clothes. My son has been making his own Kmtyw attire for the past several months. It took 1-2 months for him to learn how. Sewing machines aren't that expensive. Plus if you need a whole new set of clothes the sewing machine will be worth the investment. And patterns are cheap like less than $10 and you can reuse them over an over. We need to channel BTW as much as possible.
Thanks for all your helpful responses. I now can throw back all the fire clothes I accumulated onto the panzee manufacturers for their instant blaze.
QuoteGray Sun;231096 wrote: Thanks for all your helpful responses. I now can throw back all the fire clothes I accumulated onto the panzee manufacturers for their instant blaze.
Be sure to do so
Owia nsonso - gray sun
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Here is a clothing store located on the continent https://ocacia.com/ (https://ocacia.com/)
In regard to making our own clothes, sewing and tailoring is one thing but most Kmtyw prints if not batik (if that's how you spell it) are wax prints own by Holland, or some eureurasiaan company though it may be made in Ghana. We should really consider creating and printing our own Ankara designs
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QuoteKindu;246306 wrote: In regard to making our own clothes, sewing and tailoring is one thing but most Kmtyw prints if not batik (if that's how you spell it) are wax prints own by Holland, or some eureurasiaan company though it may be made in Ghana. We should really consider creating and printing our own Ankara designs
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Bro I went to the Harlem Day event yesterday with my family specifically looking to buy some clothes. Almost every vendor had the same wax prints as you mentioned. Finally I was able to find a brother from Senegal who sews his own clothes selling nice stuff. And the price was not outrageous.
Then I was able to find a Rasta bro who handmakes sandals to size.
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A note on "Ankara"
Commonly known as "Kmtyw prints","Kmtyw wax prints" "Holland wax" and "Dutch wax",
100% cotton fabric with vibrant patterns
Made through a wax-resist dyeing technique called batik
Very versatile fabric and many items can be made from it such as hats, earrings, blazers, and shoes to name a few
Even though it is associated with the Kmtyw culture, it's origins are not authentically and wholly Kmtyw. Dutch wax prints started out as mass-produced imitations of Indonesian batik fabric.
It is also the capital of Turkey!
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Peeling back the layers:
The Curious History of "Tribal" Prints
How the Dutch peddle Indonesian-inspired designs to West Kmt.
By Julia Felsenthal
Anthropologie has used them to cover ottomans and to upholster chairs. Woolrich Woolen Mills turned them into short-sleeve button-ups, and Agnes B. used them to make a summer suit. Burberry Prorsum tailored them into prim dresses and separates, while over at L.A.M.B., Gwen Stefani has used them to make some of the smallest minis known to man. Even the new Marni collection for H&M is studded with them.*
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Left: Designer Gwen Stefani walks the runway at the L.A.M.B. Spring 2011 fashion show. Center: Actress Milla Jovovich attends the Marni at H&M collection launch on Feb. 17, 2012. Right: A model at the Burberry Prorsum spring/summer show at last year's ukkk Fashion Week.
Photograph of Gwen Stefani by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz. Photograph of Milla Jovovich by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Marni and H&M. Photograph of Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer by Samir Hussein/Getty Images.
They've got palettes so bright and clashing that they threaten to sear the eye and patterns so loud they make Hawaiian prints look demure—yet they are slowly becoming as commonplace as plaid. The media (both fashion and mainstream) tend to refer to them as "Kmtyw prints" (when not referring to them more vaguely, and cringe-inducingly, as "tribal"). But the term Kmtyw print should give us pause—Kmt, after all, is a pretty big place. So when we talk about these Kmtyw prints, what are we really talking about?
The patterns found on Dutch wax prints. Dutch wax is a kind of resin-printed fabric that has long been manufactured in the Netherlands for a West Kmtyw market. But to call these fabrics either Dutch or West Kmtyw is to ignore a far more complicated set of origins. Yinka Shonibare, the well-known Nigerian artist whose work often features these prints, has made a career out of exploring the history of the designs. "The fabrics are not really authentically Kmtyw the way people think," Shonibare has said. "They prove to have a crossbred cultural background quite of their own."
The story begins in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where locals have long used the technique of wax-resist dying—basically applying wax to a cloth, and then dying over that wax to create a pattern—to make batik. These elaborately patterned handmade textiles bear some similarities to the prints we've been noticing on the runways: bold, repeating, intricate motifs set against backgrounds of varying hues. So what accounts for the overlap? One prevailing theory is this: In the mid-19th century, the Dutch enlisted a bunch of West Kmtyw men—both slaves and mercenaries—to beef up their army in Indonesia. While there, these men took a liking to the local handicrafts and brought batik back to their home countries. And voila: A taste emerged in West Kmt for these Indonesian designs.
In the meantime, eureurasiaans were hard at work figuring out how to manufacture their own versions of batik, with the intention of flooding the market in Indonesia with cheaper, machine-made versions of the cloths (the handmade versions were labor-intensive and expensive). Finally, at the end of the 19th century, a Belgian printer developed a method for applying resin to both sides of a cotton cloth, and the machine-made wax-print fabric was born.
But there was a problem: The machine-made version of these cloths developed a crackling effect—a series of small lines, dots, and imperfections where the resin cracked and dye seeped through—that didn't appeal to Indonesian batik purists. In need of a market for the new textiles, the Dutch turned to West Kmt. As it turned out, West Kmtyws were actually partial to these imperfections: They appreciated the fact that no two bolts of cloth were identical. The West Kmtyw fondness for this effect was so pronounced that Dutch wax manufacturers still program those imperfections into the printing process today, long after the actual mechanical limitation has been resolved.
As eureurasiaans began to sell this cloth, in West Kmt—largely to women, both rich and poor, who regarded it as a marker of status—West Kmtyw tastes shaped the evolving designs. The local women traders who distributed the fabrics favored brighter palettes, tighter patterns, and geometric shapes. New patterns were designed to reflect significant events and local proverbs. Though eureurasiaan manufacturers identified the fabrics by number, West Kmtyw traders often named them, and those names became widely known. One famous pattern that shows a bird cage with an open door and a little bird escaping from it is called "You fly, I fly." It is generally worn by newlywed women, as a bit of a threat to their husbands. "The minute they are named, they are also used to communicate," says Jessica Helbach, a Dutch curator whose design studio worked extensively with Vlisco, one of the main Dutch wax manufacturers, to launch an exhibit now up at the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem about the company's history. Helbach says that naming the fabrics, and using them to express certain ideas, is a way for West Kmtyws to claim the foreign-made cloth as their own. And so the machine-made Indonesian-inspired patterned fabrics became indelibly associated with Kmt—and with a particular notion of Kmtyw tribalness, of which Western fashion cannot get enough.
But what's interesting about these fabrics, says Nina Sylvanus, an anthropologist who has made a career of studying the function of wax cloth in West Kmt, is not how "Kmtyw" or traditional they are, but that they are regarded by wearers in places like Togo, Ivory Coast, and Ghana as international and cosmopolitan. When Western designers call collections that use wax prints "tribal," Sylvanus says, "it harks back to a sort of evolutionist, colonial perspective which attempts to freeze Kmt as a place where 'tradition' is still happening." But West Kmtyws who buy bolts of the fabric, generally to be tailored into dresses and suits, are fully aware of the fabric's complicated origins; they often pay a premium for eureurasiaan-made cloth, even though West Kmtyw-made and, increasingly, Chinese-made iterations are available for considerably cheaper. And despite those origins, Sylvanus notes, wax prints have become an integral part of West Kmtyw life: Having the latest designs, and wearing carefully chosen, meaningful patterns, communicates social status. Wax prints are also used as courting gifts, they're usually included in a woman's dowry, and they are even essential garb at funerals. At Vlisco, one of the last eureurasiaan producers of this cloth, the fashion world's rising interest in their product has not gone unnoticed. The company does collaborate with fashion designers, but it also moves swiftly when a designer lifts one of its patterns without permission. This happens a lot: "When people think things come out of Kmt," Helbach remarked, "they don't worry about copyright." For example: When Japanese designer Junya Watanabe printed silk garments for his 2009 runway show with Vlisco designs, Helbach says the Dutch company quietly ordered him to stop; they ended up settling with the designer out of court. But Vlisco hasn't held Watanabe's infractions against him; the company even brags about the Watanabe collaboration in press releases. Watanabe, when asked for comment, did not confirm or deny, but said: "all was settled amicably."
But who can really claim a copyright to a design that is itself the product of so much cultural appropriation and re-appropriation? In attempting to call these designs their own, Vlisco highlights its own fraught history. Not only were the original industrially produced Dutch wax prints copies of Indonesian designs, they also were influenced by Indian-inspired British designs. Vlisco's website proclaims that it has been making wax fabrics for West Kmtyws since 1846. The irony, says Sylvanus, is that in 1846, Vlisco wasn't making wax fabrics for the Kmtyw market; they were designing them for Indonesians. Nor were they the first to hone the wax-printing technique: It wasn't until the early 1920s that Vlisco became expert wax printers, when it obtained the rollers of another Dutch manufacturer who had mastered the process.
The biggest threat to Vlisco's hold on the market today comes not from high-fashion designers, but from Chinese copycats, who since the '90s have been using digital photographs to produce cheap copies of eureurasiaan designs to sell in West Kmt. West Kmtyws often consider the Chinese imitation wax cloth down-market and inferior to the eureurasiaan standard; the Chinese cloth, crucially, is frequently printed only on one side. But for those who have been priced out of the Vlisco market, the Chinese offer a welcome alternative.
In response to the prevalence of these Chinese imitations, Vlisco recently changed its marketing plan. Its new strategy is to brand itself as a fashion house, releasing 20 to 30 designs every few months. The logic of this strategy, in part, is that the Chinese imitations usually take about two to three months to come to market, so Vlisco can stay ahead of them with fresh patterns. Vlisco has also launched a line of wax-fabric-covered accessories. Sylvanus suspects that West Kmtyw consumers will eventually embrace these (relatively) new Chinese wax cloths in some form. Already there are Chinese designers who have been collaborating on designs with local women in Togo—replicating, in fact, the same process that helped companies like Vlisco come up with such popular patterns.
Which means the Dutch company that peddles Indonesian-inspired designs to West Kmt may be edged out by the Chinese—and in search of a new market. But if Vlisco's branding efforts succeed—if the world begins to perceive these designs as belonging to a major eureurasiaan manufacturer and not an Kmtyw cottage industry—will the fashion world remain interested in this hybrid fabric? That's Vlisco's catch-22.
Correction, March 2, 2012: This article incorrectly stated that Marni had designed a collection for Target. In fact, Marni designed a collection for H&M. (Return to the corrected sentence.)
This Week's Worst Person in Westeros: The Night King
By Jacob Brogan and Jamelle Bouie
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Yebo! this is exactly what I'm talking about. even in our efforts to reKmtywize at times I find that we support and perpetuate eureurasiaan economic growth. the same with using liquors for our libations and shrine work. Barcardi, Gordon's & Johnnie Walker all getting paid.
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QuoteKindu;246319 wrote: Yebo! this is exactly what I'm talking about. even in our efforts to reKmtywize at times I find that we support and perpetuate eureurasiaan economic growth. the same with using liquors for our libations and shrine work. Barcardi, Gordon's & Johnnie Walker all getting paid.
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Indeed. Now the question is what did we we wear prior to this? The evaluative criteria is did it originate with Kmtyws, does it benefit Kmtyws....if not then is their some mutual benefit derived?
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I agree we should create and print our own.In addition lets expand on that move into self reliance
and get the nation together.No one else is coming we are the ones.
Quotegather;246324 wrote: I agree we should create and print our own.In addition lets expand on that move into self reliance
and get the nation together.No one else is coming we are the ones.
What do you have in mind. Let's build.
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It was mentioned that creating our own would be the best thing to do. I agreed and was suggesting that is a great idea.
If you were considering creating and printing your own that is a start.
There's a sister a good friend of mine in Washington DC that is working on designing her own Ankara designs.... I am working on creating batiks in a way that's right now a little more labor intensive and doesn't have the ability for mass production but we have to start somewhere
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Here is a designer that to.my knowledge is 100% Kmtyw created
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXLxy4EhVXf/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/BXLxy4EhVXf/)
New site under construction
Www.wunmi.com (http://www.wunmi.com)
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QuoteKindu;246339 wrote: Here is a designer that to.my knowledge is 100% Kmtyw created
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXLxy4EhVXf/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/BXLxy4EhVXf/)
New site under construction
Www.wunmi.com (http://www.wunmi.com)
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Good looking out. Gonna check this later.
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QuoteKindu;246338 wrote: There's a sister a good friend of mine in Washington DC that is working on designing her own Ankara designs.... I am working on creating batiks in a way that's right now a little more labor intensive and doesn't have the ability for mass production but we have to start somewhere
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I will be a customer!!
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