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White Sunday
In Samoa, White Sunday is a special holiday that is highly anticipated all year long by the children because on White Sunday, it is the children who are in charge of the church services.
| Date: |
12 October 2008 |
| Time: |
All day |
| Location: |
Samoa |
| Cost: |
Free |
The attire for the day is "white" formal attire. If you arrive at
the church early enough, you can observe everybody arriving - a sea of
white.
The women will wear white dresses with a white hat, often
decorated with lace and veils. The men will wear their white
traditional attire of a formal "ie", which is a decorative or
floral padeo or lava lava.
On top they wear a coat jacket, white shirt, and tie that completes the male dress code for the day.
Children also only wear white.
Following the church service, is a feast, called a to'ona'i. On normal
Sundays the adults would eat first, and the children afterward, but on
White Sunday the roles are reversed. On White Sunday, the children are
seated prominently and the adults serve them.
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