So, what are waist beads for anyway?
Thanks for visiting Middle Georgia Apothecary's "Embraced" gift shop. Here are the answers to main questions that are asked about waist beads.
I'll start off my mentioning the cultural purposes.
- Waist beads have been worn by women from the Yoruba tribe now mainly in Nigeria since the 16th century. You can also see them out of West Africa and Ghana.
- Most women wear them under their garments because it was a very sacred practice for them.
- They are worn to represent womanhood, sensuality, fertility, and even passed down from mother to daughter.
- They are traditionally tied on and may only be cut off when ready.
In modern times women wear them for the same reasons listed as well as...
- Maintaining weight, the beads will roll down when you loose and vice versa when you gain.
- Detecting how much a baby is growing during pregnancy as the beads roll upward.
- Fashion purposes, waist beads naturally make you feel like a woman; beautiful, confident, sexy, and the list continues.
I'll start off my mentioning the cultural purposes.
- Waist beads have been worn by women from the Yoruba tribe now mainly in Nigeria since the 16th century. You can also see them out of West Africa and Ghana.
- Most women wear them under their garments because it was a very sacred practice for them.
- They are worn to represent womanhood, sensuality, fertility, and even passed down from mother to daughter.
- They are traditionally tied on and may only be cut off when ready.
In modern times women wear them for the same reasons listed as well as...
- Maintaining weight, the beads will roll down when you loose and vice versa when you gain.
- Detecting how much a baby is growing during pregnancy as the beads roll upward.
- Fashion purposes, waist beads naturally make you feel like a woman; beautiful, confident, sexy, and the list continues.