Since the UAE is an Islamic country, you see a lot of traditional dress in Dubai. Men wear long white dresses and white or plaid headdresses. Women wear long black dresses and cover their heads and sometimes faces in black fabric as well. These things all have names, but as I said two days ago, Arabic is difficult and even though I heard the names of each article of clothing numerous times, none of them stuck. Anna and I donned these outfits on a couple different occasions. Once for fun on our desert safari and once in order to be dressed suitably to visit the 3rd largest mosque in the world (with the largest chandelier in the world).
While most people dress very western in Rwanda, there are many women who wear beautiful long dresses made of very colorful African fabrics. The traditional formal attire of Rwandan women is equally as beautiful and equally as long.
The similarity of dress comes in the modesty of both cultures. The only knees I have seen in 7 months are my knobby ones in the shower and a select few tourists in both Dubai and Rwanda who aren’t exactly culturally sensitive in their packing for vacation.
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