New Year's Yellow Dress
Photo by KPA (view from a balcony in downtown Addis Ababa)
A New Year's yellow dress, worn by women during this Enqutatash/Addis Amet New Year. The color reflects the yellow daisies - Adey Abeba, and there are often small adey abeba which make the border of the dress. The parasol is for the hot sun, and for the rain. The sun comes out now after several minutes (throughout the day) of at times torrential rain.
This traditional dress also has embroidery of the cross, usually along the length of the front, as well as on the borders of the shawl worn with it. Enqutatash, is after all, an Orthodox Christian Holiday.