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The World of Fashion: 16 Photos of Global Styles

Glimpses of what the world wears, from the everyday to the extra-special.

Stores at Ham Towers in Kampala, Uganda, display trendy clothes, popularly known as Ham. The clothes are manufactured in Uganda, but the labels read “made in China” because customers prefer that.

Patricia Lindrio, GPJ Uganda

Joyce Banda, left, and her younger sister Bwalya Banda knit wigs with synthetic hair on mannequin heads at Kamwala Market in Lusaka, Zambia. Joyce Banda says that since the outbreak of COVID-19, people have preferred wigs to plaiting hair.

Prudence Phiri, GPJ Zambia

Mi Pwa Lakhey, wearing a traditional Newari Lakhey dress, performs a dance symbolizing the power of fire during the Gathe Mangal festival in Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur district, Nepal.

Yam Kumari Kandel, GPJ Nepal

Daniela Carreño, a Chilean tourist, shops at a secondhand clothing fair in Parque los Andes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Carreño says, “I like finding unique items I know nobody else will have and finding little gems.”

Lucila Pellettieri, GPJ Argentina

Mariana Tatto, 18, right, as she’s known professionally, applies a temporary tattoo to Homer Sevilla at an environmental fair at Parque Encuentro, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Her temporary tattoos raise awareness about the importance of pollinators.

Adriana Alcázar González, GPJ Mexico

Bal Khatri sells handmade goods in the Basantapur Durbar area in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sunita Neupane, GPJ Nepal

Tanaka Koma, who makes custom wigs, works on an Afro wig at a salon in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe

Marcela Díaz, a textile artist and jewelry-maker from Colombia, puts on earrings at her workshop in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Díaz creates products out of organic and natural materials using ancestral weaving and embroidery techniques.

Marissa Revilla, GPJ Mexico

A group of young people dressed in traditional garb dance to welcome a new auxiliary bishop in Makiso, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Zita Amwanga, GPJ Democratic Republic of Congo

Hindu devotees, wearing veshti, play traditional instruments during Makotsava Utsavam, an annual convocation, at the Siddhi Vairava Amman Temple in Kondavil, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Vijayatharsiny Thinesh, GPJ Sri Lanka

Riziki Kavira Kighoma wears one of her dry season outfits in Kirumba, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She adapts her clothes during the dry and rainy seasons.

Merveille Kavira Luneghe, GPJ Democratic Republic of Congo

Francisco Olvera, left, and Jaqueline Cervantes dance during Sesión Dominical Número 708 de Huapango, an event where people dress in their best formalwear to dance in Plaza Principal in Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Olvera and Cervantes, who have been a couple for years, like to choose each other’s dancing outfits.

Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez, GPJ Mexico

Dancers, wearing the traditional costumes of Nepal's indigenous Tharu community, get ready to perform at a promotional event for a travel agent in Nepalgunj, Banke district, Nepal.

Amrita Jaisi, GPJ Nepal

Tika Bhattarai, right, puts on bangles at Sangita Sedhai's cosmetic shop at a market in Birtamod, Jhapa district, Nepal. Women wear green, red and yellow clothes, bangles and rope braids, especially during the Nepali months of Shrawan, to worship Shiva.

Mayamitu Neupane, GPJ Nepal

Berline Viau, right, braids Daphcar André’s hair in Gressier, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Anne Myriam Bolivar, GPJ Haiti

Graciela Barragán, right, holds clothes at María Zamudio Pastor’s makeshift stand in Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Guerrero, Mexico. Artisanal clothes have become popular in Guerrero over the past two years, partly because the state governor has used them for public activities.

Avigaí Silva, GPJ Mexico