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A Mixture of Clothing Styles

NativeClothingAndEuropeanClothingComb.jpg A Mother And ChildrenThumbnailsPicnic on Platberg Mountain, August, 1928A Mother And ChildrenThumbnailsPicnic on Platberg Mountain, August, 1928A Mother And ChildrenThumbnailsPicnic on Platberg Mountain, August, 1928A Mother And ChildrenThumbnailsPicnic on Platberg Mountain, August, 1928A Mother And ChildrenThumbnailsPicnic on Platberg Mountain, August, 1928A Mother And ChildrenThumbnailsPicnic on Platberg Mountain, August, 1928

This was a picture sent to Lenore Alexander by her South African pen pal in the early twentieth century. Here you see European fashions combined with native regalia.