Overland truck, 1975
Our first campsite in Tanzania, near Mbeya.
Note our long wrap skirts. We had just come from Malawi where all women had to wear long dresses and men had to wear stove-pipe trousers, narrow enough that a beer bottle couldn't fit up the trouser leg near the ankles. This was the era of flares, so the guys had to pin/sew jeans so that they were narrow. We bought our wrap material at the Lusaka markets. There were some interesting choices including the face of the Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, which I didn't choose!
NB: Thanks to Philip Watson for the ID of the truck.
Overland truck, 1975
Our first campsite in Tanzania, near Mbeya.
Note our long wrap skirts. We had just come from Malawi where all women had to wear long dresses and men had to wear stove-pipe trousers, narrow enough that a beer bottle couldn't fit up the trouser leg near the ankles. This was the era of flares, so the guys had to pin/sew jeans so that they were narrow. We bought our wrap material at the Lusaka markets. There were some interesting choices including the face of the Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, which I didn't choose!
NB: Thanks to Philip Watson for the ID of the truck.