Editing Fashion (section)

=== Africa ===
Additionally, there is a long history of fashion in [[West Africa]].<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Green |first=Toby |title=A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution |publisher=University of Chicago Press |year=2019 |isbn=9780226644578 |location=Chicago |oclc=1051687994}}</ref> Cloth was used as a form of currency in trade with the [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] and [[Dutch people|Dutch]] as early as the 16th century,<ref name=":8" /> and locally produced cloth and cheaper European imports were assembled into new styles to accommodate the growing elite class of West Africans and resident gold and slave traders.<ref name=":8" /> There was an exceptionally strong tradition of weaving in the [[Oyo Empire]], and the areas inhabited by the [[Igbo people]].<ref name=":8" />