In Burkina Faso, there are traditional European, Arabic and mixed ways of clothing in men, women, young and children’s styles. In their daily lives, everybody wears the kind of clothes his or her likes. Religion also impacts on the way people wear clothing. Moslems, Christians and polytheists do not have the same styles of dressing. “Clothing” generally depends on the social position and what you have to do. When people have to go to the office or to the church or a civil ceremony, they do not wear the same cloth. Sometimes, there are uniforms and in that case, everybody has to wear them. It’s a way to show your mark of respect to the organization. Men and boys have the same style of clothing, women and girls have the same one.
There are about sixty-five ethnic groups in Burkina Faso. All of the ethnic groups have its own type of textile and dressing. The Ministry of Communication and Culture is working to organize the sector of handcraft textile production. Although people like wearing this kind of cloth, without help, however, it will be difficult for this field of national economy to take off. In Burkina Faso, people do not leave their old way of clothing. There is a habit which consists of protecting traditional cloth through their way of living. In daily life, all kind of styles are meeting in principals and secondary cities as well as villages. As we have public officers everywhere in the country, fundamentally there is not a real gap in clothing level between towns and villages