Bout No reproduction without consent of author At any grade of initiation, whether kanzo senp , si pwen , or asogwe , you will need certain kinds of clothing, and other articles. At higher grades, you will need more and different items.
Some men wear white dress shoes, others wear leather sandals.
Women wear big full skirted dresses or skirt and blouse outfits, with plenty of lace and ruffles. If you are a woman and you are determined to wear pants, you can, at least for the bat ge part of the ceremonial cycle, but you will still need at least one or two dresses. It is often difficult to find the type of white dresses required, and so you can have them made on very short order in Haiti. You will need two cotton dresses for the bat guerre and one satiny dress for the day of your leve kanzo, your triumphant rebirth from the djevo. Each dress requires five yards of cloth, a zipper, two white buttons, and as much lace as you can afford.