Native American Fashion.

From thousand of years humans have been  engaged in the creative practice of decorating the body from earrings and piercing to tattoos hairstyle embellish garments. Native American woman generally wore skirts and leggings often they wore shirts or tunics as  well. In some tribes, like the Cherokee and the Apache, the women wore longer buckskin dresses. Most Native Americans wore some kind of footwear. The well known garments and items of traditional clothing and ceremonial dress included the Breech cloths, buckskin shirts, deerskin dresses, the fringes, animal robes and furs, feather headdresses, roach headdresses, shawls, head baands, breastplates, belt and pouches of the American Indian. Native American headdress was their metaphorical crown. this is due to pop culture’s current intense interest in this beautiful object it is significant item for many reasons one of them being what it’s comprised of these headdress are made out of eagle feathers an eagle is seen as an important intermediary between us the human beings or an creator or the great spirit when you have done something of note for your community you are gifted a feather of this important bird it’s not easy to earn a feather I have eared two feathers in my lifetime and when you earn these feathers you can also gift them to somebody or the feathers of many different people can be combined to create a headdress that you will then present to somebody that you elect as chief sitting Bull was actually elected into his position in this manner and floor length headdress was actually comprised of eagle feathers that were earned and owned by others but felt so powerfully that he will always look out for the betterment of the tribe so he wear this headdress he physically feel the weight of his community on his head on his mind in all of his decision making he physically feels the support of his community on his back and we continue these traditions to these to this day and for those of us who still engage in these practices we feel like we have to protect them and maintain them for our children especially the value systems that are to tied into these practices and this especially goes for the children who grow up outside of their native communities and these disconnected views have already succumb to processes of self stereotyping where they look to outsiders to define there identities for them and this is important because despite all the really cool things happening in the Native fashion in stereotypical ways that it has to have frames that have set feathers it has that turquoise in order for it to be considered Indian and these points get eracerbated when large clothing companies mass production Native inspired collection’s that flood the malls and magazines and runways shows with inaccurate depictions of our cultures for. Now designer are coming forward. Desiginers are using natural resources that were used to make Native American clothing. They use plant products. Clothing made from plant products such as the bark of trees that were shredded to make fibers or grasses that were woven or garments made from cloth produced by various tribes that were woven from cotton, sheep’s wool or goats hair.