Who is in the Pictures?

Publishing pictures is such an iffy proposition that I wait until they're up before I venture a description. The top picture in the previous blog is Marie with her mother, the lower picture is Joyce, Marie's older sister, who is learning computer.

Marie's mother is wearing the tradition Buganda dress for women. Notice the puffy sleeves. To me the dress looks quasi-Victorian. There is much discussion about its origins. Prior to the British colonization, the women wore bark cloth dresses, but the missionaries thought they were not decent, so they modified the dress to something much more European. The result is what Buganda women wear to this day as their traditional dress.