Looking for latest Iro and Buba styles for your next occasion? This post features our best picks of modern and also classic Iro and Buba styles with different types of fabrics. You’ll love them!
Iro and Buba style has evolved from the simple round-neck blouse with long, wide sleeves to refreshingly modern looks. Thanks to the creativity of Nigerian Fashion designers, the modern Iro and Buba now comes in diverse fabric types, assorted sleeves and neckline styles, including puff sleeves and short sleeve buba styles.
This post features over 100 of our favourite picks of beautiful Iro and Buba styles for any occasion, including Iro and Buba styles for brides at Yoruba Traditional Wedding. Our featured Iro and Buba pictures include Gown-style Iro and Buba, lace iro and Buba, aso-oke Iro and Buba, silk and chiffon Iro and Buba, and more. Swipe/ scroll down to check out the styles.
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Play the video below to see more trendy Iro and Buba styles.
Iro and Buba styles featured in the video above include Tulip style Iro and Buba, Oleku Iro and Buba styles, 2-in-1 Gown-Wrapper Iro and Buba style, Komole Iro and Buba Styles (invented by Deola Sagoe), and more. The above Iro and Buba styles can be sewn with many types of fabrics, including lace, chifon, silk, good old ankara, adire (local tie and dye fabrics), aso-oke and more.
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Modern Trends in Iro and Buba Native-Wear Fashion in Nigeria: What is Different?
What’s Different – the Old and the New Styles of Iro and Buba? The classic or original style of Iro and Buba was not popularly worn by the younger women, but as our indigenous Nigerian fashion designers are coming out with modern styles of this traditional attire, more young women are gladly and effortlessly embracing it.
What is Oleku iro and buba? What is ‘Tulip’ wrapper? Oleku and Tulip Iro and Buba are a modern twist or upgrade to the shape, cut and silhouette of traditional Buba outfit, thereby making Buba attire in tune with global fashion and appealing to the younger folks. Modern styles and cuts of iro and buba are similar in shape to clothing styles that young Nigerian and African women (at home and abroad) are already used to.
That is the reason why we are seeing many young women wearing oleku buba (tops) and tulip style iro (wrappers) to occasions, even as wedding aso-ebi. Oleku is the term coined for the ‘short-sleeve style blouse of iro-and-buba outfit WHILE ‘Tulip’ is a style of tying the wrapper of an iro-and-buba like a wrap skirt.
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What the Modern Iro and Buba Looks Like
#1. Iro & Buba Fabric Types: The traditional iro and buba style used to be sewn in cotton fabrics, usually ankara/ wax. Lace was mostly used for party / occasion iro and buba. Latest iro and buba styles come in assorted, lighter fabrics such as silk, chiffon, guinea brocade, velvet and more;
#2. The Buba Sleeves Styles: Traditional iro and buba was only sewn in round neck and wide long sleeves that reached the wrist. The modern styles of iro and buba are sewn in all sorts of sleeves styles – fitted sleeves, short and three-quarter sleeves (OLEKU buba/ tops) and even puffed, long sleeves, sleeveless and much more. By the way, oleku is the name for the short-sleeved iro and buba.
#3. The Buba Neckline Styles: The neckline of the old style of buba is round WHILE necklines of the modern buba styles are also limitless – we’re seeing women wear the one-shoulder buba style, the scallop-neck, high-neck, v-neck, cowl neck, embellished neckline (with beads, with lace etc) and more. To see latest buba neck and sleeves, check out the pictures above for over 100 new buba styles;
#4. The Buba Body Styles: The traditional buba style is loose-fitting WHILE the modern styles have been tweaked into the fitted and not-so-loose styles. You can see them in the pictures above.
#5. The Wrapper (Iro): With the old, traditional buba style, the wrapper is tied round the waist BUT with the modern style buba, thewrapper is knotted in front (TULIP STYLE). In the old buba style, In the modern iro and buba style, the wrapper (iro) length: varied – long and short, as the wearer desires.
#6. Other: In the Oleku buba style, the buba (top) could be paired with a short or long skirt.
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Why the New and Modern Buba Styles Are So Popular
Many young Nigerian (and even Yoruba) women dislike wearing the old style of iro and buba, saying that it makes them look older (aka ‘mama-ish’), and they are happily embracing the modern buba styles as most say that it’s so like-their-age. The oleku and tulip style of iro and buba are very youthful, convenient to tie and more fashionable too.
The tulip style of tying the (Iro) is ‘a game changer’ for the young and stylish Nigerian women who would never have been caught in the old-style, traditional Ito and Buba. If you hated wearing any type of wrapper-style Nigerian outfit, you’ll love the Oleku style Buba and the Tulip style of tying Iro (wrappers).
About Iro and Buba: The Yoruba Women Traditional / Native-Wear
Iro (wrapper) and buba (top/ blouse), the traditional outfit of adult Yoruba women of Nigeria (West Africa) used to be sewn in only one style – simple round neck, loose long sleeves and the top (iro) is worn over a long wrapper. Iro and buba was worn at home as well as parties, but iro and buba for weddings and parties were tailored with more expensive fabrics such as lace, ankara/ wax, guinea brocade, lace, aso-oke, tie-and-dye adire. Cotton fabrics are usually used to sew the traditional iro and buba styles. Ankara wax was (still is) popular choice of women with stay-as-home iro and buba.
While the oleku and tulip style iro and buba styles are fast gaining acceptance in and outside Nigeria, especially among the young women, the classical, original style of buba is still a favourite of older women. If you’re a bellanaija fan like us, you know that every asoebibella edition has lots of oleku blouse and tulip style iro.
What’s Your Buba Style – Modern or Retro?
You can’t go wrong in Iro and Buba, whether it’s the classic, traditional Buba style or the modern Buba styles. If in doubt of what to sew for a special occassion, especially of you’re the celebrant, go for any of the latest Buba styles we featured above. With Buba, you can be sure that your outfit will no go out of style soon.
There you have it – the latest and trending iro and buba native styles for Nigerian women. I hope you like them. Please, leave me a comment to tell me the one you like best. And, don’t forget to share this post with your friends – facebook it/ tweet it/ email it.
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