Bazin Miroir is the most expensive and of the highest quality of all the current bazin types. The cloth is coated in a type of resin, which gives it its stiffness and paper-like feel. The most highly prized bazin miroir is imported from Senegal and Mali, where it is dyed. Some of the cloth is manufactured completely in Africa, though a great deal is also imported from Europe (Germany, Switzerland) and China, and then dyed. Mali, e.g., one of the world's leading producers of cotton, paradoxically does not have any factories to process the raw material, and so cotton cloth is imported from Europe and Asia.This outfit consists of a long shirt (riga or jallabiya) and trousers (wando). The
shirt has purple machine-embroidery around the neck and front opening. The trousers are around 2m in width around the waist, the legs are also cut wide but with close fitting ankle bands.
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