"...also, clement claims he couldn't find a cheaper place to live so he is staying in the place he was last year. it's possible that this is true since it turns out that laura's ONG's main activity is providing free rent and tuition to like 400 kids, so I can imagine everything is taken up. on the other hand, clement has been rocking some awesome red women's jeans recently and i can't imagine that they came cheap."
This is probably only entertaining for like three people in the world, none of whom are reading this, but the Beninese tendency to push the envelope when it comes to what gender or even part of the body clothing was originally designed for is endlessly hilarious. Besides the ubiquitous scowling taxi drivers wearing whimsical 'World's Best Grandma' appliquéd and lace-trimmed denim shirts or forlorn, straight-from-a-Save-the-Children-commercial children wearing as their only dress/tunic a t-shirt that proclaims, 'Talk to the Hand!', you occasionally happen across something really special. In two years, I think this was the best I ever saw:
The title of this photo, for those who aren't sure what they're looking at, is 'turtleneckpantz.'
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