Mexico/Oaxaca/Tehuantepec

San Blas Atempa (Tehuantepec): tehuanas embroiding huipiles. This village is so-well known that buyers comes from foreign countries. The Zapotecas women of the Istmo create with their extraordinary dresses a ?living? myth. When the tehuanas dance the sones during the festivities (Velas), floral skirts and huipiles (shirts) transform the track in a sort of magical mobile garden, and every woman in a Queen. The tehuanas are the archetype of an ancient and legendary Mexico, told in the murales of Diego Rivera and impersonated also by Frida Kalho. It's no accident that she wore always the traditional dresses of the Istmo. But these showy trajes, and the rich golden ornaments that accompany them, are above all an instrument of auto-representatiom for who wears it: active women which the control of the local markets confers an independent economic power that is reflected in the self confidence. Even in the development of the festivities, where the women often dance a lot among them while the men remain seated watching.

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San Blas Atempa (Tehuantepec): tehuanas embroiding huipiles. This village is so-well known that buyers comes from foreign countries. The Zapotecas women of the Istmo create with their extraordinary dresses a ?living? myth. When the tehuanas dance the sones during the festivities (Velas), floral skirts and huipiles (shirts) transform the track in a sort of magical mobile garden, and every woman in a Queen. The tehuanas are the archetype of an ancient and legendary Mexico, told in the murales of Diego Rivera and impersonated also by Frida Kalho. It's no accident that she wore always the traditional dresses of the Istmo. But these showy trajes, and the rich golden ornaments that accompany them, are above all an instrument of auto-representatiom for who wears it: active women which the control of the local markets confers an independent economic power that is reflected in the self confidence. Even in the development of the festivities, where the women often dance a lot among them while the men remain seated watching.