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SAPEURS
THE GENTLEMEN OF BACONGO

Price:
2,300 yen (JPY)
Size:
150×200×20mm
Pages:
224
Binding:
softcover
ISBN:
978-4-86152-499-8 C0072

The importance of being elegant…
A journey with the Sapeurs of Bacongo,
a district of Brazzaville in the Congo,
and the true birthplace of Sape,the religion of style.
In the Congo”elegance” is very important.perhaps in no other country is a sense of style so crucially identified with its own cultural history.
A significant part of this heritage in the “Sape” and the “Sapeurs”(Society for the Advancement of People of Elegance) from the French “La Societ‘e des Ambianceurs et des Personnes ‘El‘egantes”.

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