up in beautiful and dazzling handmade costumes. Every year the event has a theme, and last year’s was ‘Extremeagination’ with 10 categories of costumes; Roman Empire, Madurese, Oceanarium, Persians, Orchiaceae, Savana, Mushroom, Dragon, Trinidad & Tobago, and Planet Heredity. Trinidad & Tobago is the category that I believe deserves a special note. As participants came out on the street dancing to the music, they were utterly engaging with their fantastic costumes and
Everything seemed to go smoothly
handedly brought many positive
huge wings adorned with thousands
and the organizers managed to
changes to this little town.
of brightly colored feathers. They
keep everything in order. The city
were able to lure everyone into
itself has grown from it and slowly
continues to grow, the Jember
joining in and dancing.
but surely there have been more and
Fashion Carnaval will return
In my personal opinion I
more hotels popping up as well as
this year for three full days from
think that the carnival has really
more places to hang out. One can
August 23 to 25 with the theme
progressed over the years.
even say that the JFC has single
‘Artechsion.’ The new costume
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As the popularity of the carnival