'"White" is gala wear in Pondoland. Originally, white was a token of mourning, but after a long period in mourning for a chief it became the custom for gala wear. Modern use of "Reckitt's" blue produces "white" garments of many blue shades. The Pondo insists that these garments are ‘white’. They gleam with cleanliness, are laundered after every party, bushes and rocks at kraal sites usually being festooned with pale blue draperies after weekends when parties usually take place. The Pondo matron wears a blanket, beaded, a beaded hip cloth and a circular skirt heavily decorated with braid. Her hair is a series of small twisted strands and her beads are in the typical blue and white.'