"Nice Piyamas!": Clothing by another color.
I always change into Nigerian clothing in Europe, during my stop-over, so that I approach the gate for the flight to Nigeria. Their clothing is lovely, cotton, tie-die, intricate and beautiful design. Some of their clothing can be very expensive, but I prefer the simple, less expensive, upper and lower garment, in contrast to the more elaborate and expensive "agbada" outer cape that stretches from finger tip to fingertip, 6 feet wide, and from shoulders to just above the ground, and additional more than 5 feet in front, continuing to 5 feet in back, a single piece of cloth 6 feet wide and over 10 feet long! The garment is then gathered like huge shoulder blades on both shoulders, gracefully draped. Yet, as I said, I prefer the more simple roomy light cotton, and wear that kind of beautiful 'clothings' one 100 % of the time while I am there. In Europe at the airport, both coming and going, nearly everyone stares at me, my large old, frame over 6 feet tall, over 300 pounds, white beard, with a West African hat, which folds over to the side, something like that of a green beret. As I walk along, in a stately manner, people actually stare at me, as I approach, and are sometimes still staring, after I pass. One man from Holland, looked me up and down, smiled at me, and said, "Nice pee-yam-as!"