Cameroon Wedding Women Fashion Pearl Style Jewelry 81

Cameroon Wedding Women Fashion Pearl Style Jewelry 81

Cameroon Wedding Women Fashion Pearl Style Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan. Cameroon has distinct regional cultural, religious, and political traditions as well as ethnic variety. The division of the country into British- and French-ruled League of Nations mandates after World War I created Anglophone and Francophone...

Cambodia Women's Bridal Pearl Fashion Gold Jewelry 80

Cambodia Women's Bridal Pearl Fashion Gold Jewelry 80

Cambodia Women's Bridal Pearl Fashion Gold Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan.  The golden age of Cambodia was between the 9th and 14th century, during the Angkor period, during which it was a powerful and prosperous empire that flourished and dominated almost all of inland Southeast Asia. However, Angkor would...

Burundi Women's Bridal Fashion Gold Jewelry 79

Burundi Women's Bridal Fashion Gold Jewelry 79

Burundi Women's Bridal Fashion Gold Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan Location and Geography. Burundi is a small landlocked country in east central Africa, bordering Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its total area is 10,750 square miles (27,830 square kilometers). The country is situated...

Burkina Faso Women's Fashion Pearl Jewelry 78

Burkina Faso Women's Fashion Pearl Jewelry 78

Burkina Faso Women's Fashion Pearl Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan. Identification. In 1984, Thomas Sankara's revolutionary government changed the name Upper Volta to Burkina Faso, thus discarding the name the French had given their former colony. Burkina Faso is an artificial word, using linguistic elements from...

Bulgaria Pearls Fashion Wedding Bridal Jewelry 77

Bulgaria Pearls Fashion Wedding Bridal Jewelry 77

Bulgaria  Pearls Fashion Wedding Bridal  Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan trace their ancestry to the merging of Bulgars (or Proto-Bulgarians), a central Asian Turkic people, and Slavs, a central European people, beginning in the seventh century C.E. in what is now northeastern Bulgaria. Besides ethnic...

Brunei Darussalam Women's Pearl Fashion Jewelry 76

Brunei Darussalam Women's Pearl Fashion Jewelry 76

Brunei Darussalam Women's Pearl  Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan Identification. Brunei Darussalam is a multiethnic society in which one ethnic group, the Barunay, has a monopoly of political power. Variations in tradition among other ethnic groups are not regional but cultural, social, and linguistic....

Brazil Women's Stylish Pearl Fashion Jewelry 75

Brazil Women's Stylish Pearl Fashion Jewelry 75

Brazil Women's Stylish Pearl Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan Note from BW of Brazil: For most, the name Daúde (pronounced “Dah-ooh-gee”) may not be a familiar name in the world of Pop music. But in Brazil of the 1990s and early part of the 2000s, the name conjured up the image of an attractive, brown-skinned...

Botswana Girl Women Pearl Fashion Jewelry 74

Botswana Girl Women Pearl Fashion Jewelry 74

Botswana Girl Women Pearl Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan DC Fashion Week is the largest exhibition of fashion apparel in the District of Columbia. The designers of DC Fashion Week are an eclectic group of designing talent who come from around the globe. From the high fashion capitol of New York City,...

Bosnia And Herzegovina Wedding Pearl Fashion Jewelry 73

Bosnia And Herzegovina Wedding Pearl Fashion Jewelry 73

Bosnia And Herzegovina Wedding Pearl Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan. At the center of Coco Chanel’s 1932 Bijoux de Diamants jewelry collection is the Comète, a spectacular 649-diamond collar in the form of a shooting star. Despite its obvious opulence, a perfect purity of line keeps it from being flashy...

Bolivia Women's Pearl Wedding Fashion Jewelry 72

Bolivia Women's Pearl Wedding Fashion Jewelry 72

Bolivia Women's Pearl Wedding Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan.  Bolivian clothes are different in Potosí and Chuquisaca where, although the chola costume is sometimes used and adapted to the local culture, it isn’t truly representative of these two departments. Typical clothing in Potosí does still...

Bhutan Women's Pearl Fashion Jewelry 71

Bhutan Women's Pearl Fashion Jewelry 71

Bhutan Women's Pearl Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan.  Since ancient times, the pearl has been a symbol of unblemished perfection. It is the oldest known gem, and for centuries it was considered the most valuable. A fragment of the oldest known pearl jewelry, found in the sarcophagus of a Persian...

Bermuda Women's Pearl Bracelet Fashion Jewelry 70

Bermuda Women's Pearl Bracelet Fashion Jewelry 70

Bermuda Women's Pearl Bracelet Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan The islanders had no choice but to love them. Up until the `50s, visitors and Bermudians alike were required by law to observe the island`s oh-so-proper ways. For women that meant, among other things, never showing legs above the knee. The government...

Benin Women's Bridal Fashion Pearls Gold Jewelry 69

Benin Women's Bridal Fashion Pearls Gold Jewelry 69

Benin Women Bridal Fashion Pearls Gold Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan. Identification. Before 1975, the Republic of Benin was known as Dahomey, its French colonial name. Three years after the coup that brought Major Kérékou to power, the name was changed to the People's Republic of Benin, reflecting the Marxist-Leninist...

Belize Women Pearls Wedding Ring Fashion Jewelry 68

Belize Women Pearls Wedding Ring Fashion Jewelry 68

Belize Women Pearls Wedding Ring Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan.  In this Fashion Tribute to Belizean History designer Rebecca Stirm, history student Cherisse Halsall, and photographer Monica Gallardo partner to reveal the stories of four outstanding Belizean women through fashion. As the smoke...

Belgium Women Pearl Fashion Wedding Jewelry 67

Belgium Women Pearl Fashion Wedding Jewelry 67

Belgium Women Pearl Fashion Wedding Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan  Wander here and there in Belgium! You’ll find the French domination in the Belgian clothing. It is very much true that Belgium is the European country having the population of French, Dutch, Flemish and Flanders who inhabited Belgium thousands...

Belarus Women's Pearl Fashion Party Jewelry 66

Belarus Women's Pearl Fashion Party Jewelry 66

Belarus Women's Pearl Fashion Party Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan   Clothing is an important ethnic feature of the nation. The origins of Belarusian clothing tradition lie in the ancient Kiewan Rus'. The moderate continental climate, long winter and mild summer required a closed, warm clothing. Fabrics...

Barbados Girls Pearls Girls Fashion Jewelry 65

Barbados Girls Pearls Girls Fashion Jewelry 65

Barbados Girls Pearls Girls Fashion Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan. Identification. Barbadians are people born on Barbados and people born elsewhere who have at least one Barbadian parent and maintain cultural ties to the nation. There are emigrant Barbadians communities in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United...

Bangladesh Women's Wedding Fashion Pearl Jewelry 64

Bangladesh Women's Wedding Fashion Pearl Jewelry 64

Bangladesh Women's Wedding Fashion Pearl Jewelry. By Aamir mannan.  Location and Geography. Bangladesh straddles the Bay of Bengal in south Asia. To the west and north it is bounded by India; to the southeast, it borders Myanmar. The topography is predominantly a low-lying floodplain. About half the...

Bahrain Women's Fashion Pearl Wedding Gold Jewelry 63

Bahrain Women's Fashion Pearl Wedding Gold Jewelry 63

Bahrain Women's Pearl Fashion Wedding Gold Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan.  The Women in Bahrain are Asian women who are generally more publicly active than in other Arab countries. Being highly educated, most Bahraini women are well represented in all of the major professions, women’s societies, and women’s...

Bahamas Women's Pearls Fashion Ring Jewelry 62

Bahamas Women's Pearls Fashion Ring Jewelry 62

Bahamas Women Pearls Fashion Ring Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan.  Christine Campbell of The Bahamas was selected as the U.S. Department of State’s Alumni Member of the Month for April 2012 in recognition of her advocacy and support of women’s issues as well as her efforts in youth education and empowerment....

Armenian Fashion Bangles Bracelet Jewelry 61

Armenian Fashion Bangles Bracelet Jewelry 61

Armenian Fashion Bangles Bracelet Jewelry. By Aamir Mannan. National culture, ser nacional (national being), cultura rioplatense , cultura gauchesca , cultura criolla (creole culture). In Argentina the word creole often has a different connotation than in the rest of Latin America. While in most countries...

Armenian Pearl Girl Fashion gold Jewelry 60

Armenian Pearl Girl Fashion gold Jewelry 60

Armenian Pearl Girl Fashion gold Jewelry. By Aamir mannan.  mong the earliest cultural values of the Armenians was the high status of women both as productive members of the economy and as homemakers. Formal authority rested with the men, but women developed what has been aptly described as "rule by...