Bogolan Dreadlock Headwear & Legwear · 4/6 checks · Reference only — buy controls inert
Board art present
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Seven views
7/7 view slots resolve · 0 real photograph(s), rest derived from the plate sheet.
Bogolan signature
Placements: crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
Colourways
12 colourway(s) registered.
Owner marked art final
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House · Fit Dance
Six-panel cap, bucket hat, headband and high-waist legging, each banded in gold Bogolan mudcloth and finished with braided bogolan dreadlock cords and gold aglets. Gold diamond Z struck once per piece.
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Seven views
Z-Motion™ film slot
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Commission the film →Six-panel cap, bucket hat, headband and high-waist legging, each banded in gold Bogolan mudcloth and finished with braided bogolan dreadlock cords and gold aglets. Gold diamond Z struck once per piece.
Made up in Bogolan mudcloth-printed twill, sculpting compression knit, braided mudcloth cord, gold hardware.
Registered in 7 colourways: Noir Or, Cocoa Or, Ivoire Or, Lime Vive, Émeraude Or, Saphir Or, Améthyste Or.
Sized XS–One size across the run.
Filed under House · Z-Vibe Fit Dance as Women suits, carried on the House · Fit Dance line.
Radiance, finished by hand.
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12 colourways
SKU ZV-HOUSE-ZVIBE-FIT-DANCE-BOGOLAN-DREADLOCK-HEADWEAR-LEGWEAR
Mudcloth in sand & charcoal — light tape on deep cloth.
24mm tape · 56mm motif repeat · house proportion
Woven tape belt cut from the same run as the garment trim.
Story behind the design
Kere mudcloth in sand & charcoal, worked into the crop neck band, left cuff, front placket.
sand & charcoal
ZB-KERE-SAN-365
Bogolanfini begins as hand-woven cotton strip cloth, joined selvedge to selvedge before it ever meets the dye. It is dyed with a double n'gallama bath with a lime-brightened reserve for the pale ground — the pattern is not printed on, it is drawn in mud and then the ground around it is lifted away. On this piece the mudcloth meets bogolan mudcloth-printed twill.
The tape carries tight lattice with hand-dotted corners. In the Bamana reading, Kere is the fence weave — protection of what has been built. Z-Vibe keeps the motif at heritage scale rather than shrinking it into a logo pattern, so the hand of the maker stays legible on the finished piece.
Mudcloth is placed on construction points, never scattered as decoration: crop neck band, left cuff, front placket. These are the lines the eye already follows on this silhouette, so the cloth reads as structure — an edge, a facing, a seam — and holds its meaning at three metres and at arm's length alike.
Each length is block-matched panel to panel — the atelier discards any length where the repeat cannot be aligned. Tape width and motif repeat are cut to the size band, so a petite run and an extended run carry the same proportion rather than the same measurement.
African heritage, global luxury, future design: the mudcloth is set against European finishing and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark. Nothing is erased on either side — the meeting is the design. Different Roots. One Human Story.
Care · Air the piece after wear and store folded with the tape inside. Steam from the reverse — a hot iron directly on the mudcloth flattens the weave.
Each step below reflects work that actually exists for this piece. Refinement is a design process — it does not imply the piece is production-released.
Owner-approved design board intakeComplete
The signed design board was registered as the source of truth; silhouette, Bogolan placement and hardware were locked from it.
Z-Sole Architecture™ assignmentComplete
Sole identity resolved for this style — Z-Grip™ Legwear Cut (ZG-1784) on the Z-Grip™ lugged rubber chassis, split-diamond Z lugs stepped in three depths, narrow blade last drawn long through the waist, stack 28 mm heel / 18 mm forefoot, 10 mm drop, laced in twin-tone Bogolan flat tape, obsidian on ivory, aged-gold aglets, diamond Z at the lateral wall, Z-VIBE at the medial wall. Tread, last and stack height were made unique to the shoe rather than shared across the register.
Bogolan signature verificationComplete
Mudcloth was confirmed as a construction detail (laces, panel, tongue or heel band) and not surface print, and the aged-gold Z-Closure™ mark was placed.
Z-Studio 4K refinement passNot yet run
No refinement output released yet — this page reads the approved board unretouched.
Seven-view studio captureNot yet run
No angle has been shot yet; all 7 views read the design board.
Cut in Bogolan mudcloth-printed twill with sculpting compression knit, braided mudcloth cord, gold hardware. Stay-put ergonomic panels, high-rise support, breathable zones, functional pockets.
Bogolan is placed with intention \u2014 crop neck band, left cuff, front placket \u2014 a construction language rather than decoration.
Z zipper pull at the Discreet Z at the cuff, waist or closure — never a chest logo, finished under Global Heritage Fusion\u2122: African heritage in dialogue with global tailoring and future design.
Radiance, finished by hand.
Bogolan SignatureIn development
Reference study · not yet for sale
This piece is documented from an atelier design board. It is shown for reference only while the house completes its photography, sizing and release. Purchase, pricing and availability appear here once the owner approves the finished piece.
Readiness · 1 of 8 complete
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