shweshwe, the indigo fabric that was brought to South Africa by missionaries in the 1pockets, ric-rac and sometimes even embroidery. African fashion, Ankara, kitenge, African women dresses, African prints, African men’s fashion, Nigerian style, Ghanaian fashionMy ancestors came from many different countries, moving around Europe and Eastern Europe negotiating antisemitism, shifting borders and changing opportunities. My mother was born in Germany, my father in South Africa. They passed on to me a sense of rootlessness, a complete indifference to Australian Rules football and a tragic absence of traditional dress. SO unfair.