The 180 colorful, brightly patterned rooms feature leopard-pattern robes and a bust of Thomas Jefferson atop the armoire.
Nice touches include teddy bears, funky-pattern robes, an evening wine reception and free wireless Internet access.
Women wore them over more richly patterned robes.
A shortish, wiry man entered the room wearing traditional Zimbabwean clothes - a beaded head-dress and brightly patterned robes.
Elders in brightly patterned robes bless the couple, not just wishing or predicting happiness but guaranteeing it with serene authority.
He, too, is gorgeously dressed, in a stylish outer cloak of black and gold with a bright red lining and smartly patterned robes under it that reach to the tops of his high-heeled shoes.
His figures are usually partly draped in loosely defined versions of the extravagantly patterned robes that tighten into a mosaiclike brilliance in his paintings, as in the portrait titled "The Pale Face" in the next room.
Carrie Fisher strolled around her Obama Pajama Party in black silk pajamas and a brightly patterned robe.
Sandie Shaw steals the show, dressed in a fringed pink Union Jack-patterned robe and mini-shorts, the kind of thing you might well hallucinate on acid.
Just when it begins to look like bad Japanese Butoh, the movement picks up into a sort of plowing Pilgrim's Progress until Nirvana is reached as a beautiful pattern dance in dyed robes.
That much is evident in the African patterns on the church robes, and in the names of the various ministries and associations; the bookshop, for example, is called Akiba, the Swahili word for "savings".
