{"id":12504,"date":"2018-07-11T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T20:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/?p=12504"},"modified":"2018-07-12T20:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T00:41:01","slug":"dashiki-the-newest-it-item-elle-canada-faced-the-wrath-of-cultural-appropriation-comments-from-twitter-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/dashiki-the-newest-it-item-elle-canada-faced-the-wrath-of-cultural-appropriation-comments-from-twitter-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashiki &#8216;The Newest It-Item&#8217;  Elle Canada Faced the wrath of Cultural Appropriation Comments From Twitter Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen them.\u00a0 Yes. In baskets at flee markets,\u00a0 or perhaps hanging on tiny market stalls, or just by the side of the busy road in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>However, Elle Canada didn&#8217;t quite get the memo. The magazine received backlash over a story which claimed that &#8220;dashikis are the new kaftans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The magazine posted the story (which has since been removed) on Twitter for referring to this well-known (apparently, only in this part of the world) West African attire as &#8220;in style&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElleCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElleCanada<\/a> Ensure your social media team is well traveled &amp; educated. The dashiki has BEEN &#8220;IN&#8221;. How <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ignorant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ignorant<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/T0kfITvj3E\">pic.twitter.com\/T0kfITvj3E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BRAVURA BECK (@BravuraBeck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BravuraBeck\/status\/634359014348820485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Twitter wasn&#8217;t laughing. Angry tweeters called out the magazine for being ignorant to a style that has been &#8220;an integral part of black culture for years. Here&#8217;s what a few tweeters had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElleCanada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElleCanada<\/a> is this a joke? We&#8217;ll borrow the hashtag- <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mycultureisnotcouture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mycultureisnotcouture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/wJaXayGmsM\">pic.twitter.com\/wJaXayGmsM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Media Diversified (@WritersofColour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WritersofColour\/status\/634275494872109056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is so irritating. NOTHING about a dashiki is new. It&#8217;s been the &#8220;it-item&#8221; in African countries since forever <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4OoLuDmize\">https:\/\/t.co\/4OoLuDmize<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ugo \ud83c\udf3c (@LOVEugonma) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LOVEugonma\/status\/634231186248695808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Elle Canada showed dashikis from Forever 21 in that post. Forever 21 doesn&#8217;t even call them dashikis. No cultural context. Very offensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dynamic Africa (@DynamicAfrica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DynamicAfrica\/status\/634334279175151616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Who knew a dashiki could cause such uproar? But what we do know is that unfortunately, this will not be the last time that we will have to sit down and discuss cultural appropriation with mainstream publications.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you Twitterverse, for your call to action and hopefully, it will make people more aware that ignorance is a choice that can change with education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen them.\u00a0 Yes. In baskets at flee markets,\u00a0 or perhaps hanging on tiny market stalls, or just by the side of the busy road in New York City. However, Elle Canada didn&#8217;t quite get the memo. The magazine received backlash over a story which claimed that &#8220;dashikis are the new kaftans.&#8221; The magazine posted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,7,3144,75],"tags":[3170,3169,25,272],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12509,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions\/12509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africafashionweek.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}