Nguo

Nguo ni kitambaa ambacho kinaweza kutumika kufunikia meza, kitanda n.k. lakini hasa kutengenezea mavazi mbalimbali yanayovaliwa na mtu kwa ajili ya kujisitiri, kwa sababu ya kutunza heshima yake na kujikinga dhidi ya baridi, jua, mvua n.k. Ndiyo sababu mara nyingi neno "nguo" linamaanisha mavazi yenyewe.

Nguo huvaliwa kulingana na hali ya hewa na mazingira fulani, lakini pia kulingana na mitindo inayobadilikabadilika kadiri ya nyakati. 

 Historia ya nguo 
Kulingana na wanaakiolojia na wanaanthropolojia, nguo za kwanza zilikuwa manyoya, ngozi za wanyama, majani na nyasi. Uvaaji wa nguo hizi uliwasaidia binadamu haswa katika kujikinga na hewa baya, kujikinga na vumbi pamoja na dhoruba kali. 

 Marejeo 

 Tanbihi 

 Introduction by Teresa Archuleta-Sagel. 196 pages with 125 black and white as well as colour plates. Fisher is Curator Emirta, Textiles & Costumes of the Museum of International Folk Art.

Arai, Masanao (Textile Industry Research Institute of Gunma). "From Kitsch to Art Moderne: Popular Textiles for Women in the First Half of Twentieth-Century Japan" ( ). Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. Textile Society of America, January 1, 1998.

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