The pajamas must be white. Prepare also to have several changes of nice clean white underwear available for this time. When you leve kanzo and leave seclusion in the djevo , you will again wear whites, and these must be brand new. Other clothes People who become asogwe will need certain other clothes, but they are not available in the United States. You will need a shirt or a dress of multi-colored cottton calico for the suleliye ceremony, and again it is best to have this made in Haiti as these type of clothes are all but impossible to find in the United States.
Shirts require two yards of cloth, dresses require five.
You should get several peices of different colors of calico. Materials for making ceremonial objects Pakets Those who become si pwen or asogwe will make pakets , magical items covered and decorated in a particular way. They require lightweight white cotton fabric, heavy silk sateen fabric, seed beads, sequins, straight pins, feathers dyed in various colors, and colored silk ribbon. Ribbon colors should be purple, blue-green, and pink, or another color as noted above. A yard of each color of cloth, three yards of each color of ribbon, plus three yards of white cotton, will be sufficient.