Appropriating or Appreciating Indigenous Fashion: Playing Dress-Up?
It’s the end of #fashionrevolution week. It begs us to ask the question: #whomademyclothes What do we wear and how does what we wear make us feel … or do we even think about it? Some of us, me included, choose to wear clothing designed and made by indigenous women. These are ancient designs, considered […]
Chiapas Boundaries, Borders and Cloth: Cultural Tourism
Long before the Spanish conquest of the Americas beginning with Mexico in 1521, Maya land was contiguous. Maya peoples spanned what we now know as Chiapas, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador. While spoken dialects differ, the language of cloth tells a similar and familiar story of the universe and creation: corn, […]