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gigivas · 28 days

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Layla Boustani: Majestic Gaze, A Lady's Ethnic Enigma

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POSITIVE PROMPTS (Copy the following) Charcoal and graphite artistically portray a Lebanese-style young woman, exuding vintage waves hairstyle, enveloped in a silk blouse adorned with ethnocultural embroidery, wielding a bold and direct stare, maintaining a head straight with a powerful stance, and intensely engaging another in this arresting head profile portrait shot. Meticulously shaded, unveiling intricate facial expressions, preserving a minimalistic yet expressive aura, centering on the eyes, embracing a monochromatic theme, and accentuating tender contours, all as a testament to her formidable character and emotions.

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Midjourney v6 (Copy the following) /imagine prompt: In this captivating charcoal and graphite portrait, a young Lebanese woman is depicted with a vintage waves hairstyle, beautifully attired in a silk blouse adorned with traditional embroidery. Her bold and direct stare conveys her strength and determination, as her head remains erect with a powerful posture, her gaze locked onto an unseen observer. The portrait skillfully showcases delicate shading and intricate facial expressions, effectively communicating her emotional depth. Adopting a minimalistic yet expressive style, it emphasizes her commanding eyes set against a monochromatic backdrop and subtle contours, capturing her individuality and emotions. The soft, ambient lighting fosters a reflective ambiance, elevating the introspective mood of this close-up composition, masterfully encapsulating her upright and intense demeanor., --ar 2:3 --v 6

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budapestbug · 7 years

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"Matyó culture" is on the nomination list of UNESCO World Heritage. In the south, at the edge of the Alföld, live the most colorfully dressed Hungarian ethnographic group, the Matyós. Matyó people's name can be traced back to King Matthias, who in the 15th century raised Mezőkövesd to the status of regional town. The colorfully embroidered flowers, based on old patterns, with which the women adorn their blouses, fabrics and aprons - red on a white or black ground being particularly popular - produce some of the most beautiful articles in Hungarian folklore. Matyó folk embroidery, originating in Mezökövesd, is popular both within Hungary and abroad. Shawls, tablecloths and aprons of black material are thickly embroidered with a dense accumulation of multicolored flowers in rich Oriental colors which harmonize despite their gaudiness. According to legend, there is a symbolism in the colors used in Matyo decorative work: black represents the soil from which life springs, red is the color of summer – representing light and joy – and blue stands for grief and death. Matyó embroidery decorates men’s wear, too, providing men with coats, vests and shirts more ornate than anywhere else in the country. Over the richly ornamented dresses, women wear a cone-like head wear; the men, high hats. The long skirts of women are made of noble materials, such as cashmere, silk and satin. They are tight at the waist and bell shaped at the ankle. The collar, chest and the bottom of the baggy sleeve of shirts for men are embroidered in a wide strip. The clothing of men and women is supplemented with long aprons. On the long felt cloak of the shepherds, flower patterns are dominant.

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hauteculturefashion · 6 years

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Possibly one of the most fascinating, recognizable and most iconic traditional dresses in the world is the Huipil Grande, from Istmo of Tehauntepec, Mexico.

Made famous to foreigners due its appearance in two of Frida Kahlo’s paintings, Self–Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego on My Mind), 1943, and Self-Portrait, 1948, and made famous to nationals due to the matriarchy society, the Istmos of Tehuantepec, from where it originates, this garment can not help but captivate the attention of everyone in its eyeshot. From head to toe, like the women who wear it, it is a force of fashion embedded with a strong cultural identity that demands respect and is not to be reckoned with.

Huipil grande of the Istmo de Tehuntepec worn in the Toca style, which is still worn today when entering churches during religious festivals.

Standing shy of a meter in height the Huipil Grande is headdress made from a combination of pleated and starched white lace, commercial lace and satin ribbon. Unlike a traditional huipil, that’s construction is made from a rectangular piece of fabric which has been folded at the shoulders, the Hupil Grande’s construction is based on that of woman’s blouse, only with non-functioning sleeves. Essentially it is one accessory worn two ways, the Huipil Grande Toca and the Huipil Grande Traje de Gala. The Huipil Grande Toca is the style that hugs the face line, this style is used during traditional Tehuana religious events when the wearer must enter a church. The Huipil Grande Traje de Gala is the style that fans out over the top of the head and behind the back creating a sunray effect, this style is used for civil festivals and civil wedding ceremonies. The huipil grande is also known as “Resplandor” meaning “Radiate” in Spanish.

The Huipil Grande is worn with the traditional Tehuana Gala dress, which is an outfit consisting of a large A-line skirt that has been hemmed with white starched and pleated lace, and a traditional rectangle shaped huipil. Both garments are made from matching fabric, typically commercial satin or velvet and embroidered with flowers by hand that graduate in colour.

Suggested Further Reading THE TEHUANA & THEIR SHOWSTOPPING TRADITIONAL DRESS or MEXICAN EMBROIDERY TECHNIQUES FROM THE ITSMO OF TEHUANTEPEC.

The word Toca in Spanish means touch. The Huipil Grande worn in this way literally touches and hugs the face, whilst covering the breasts of the wearer, who prior to the colonization only worn wrap skirts. Tehuana women were required to cover their breasts if they wanted to enter a church.

From the back of the Huipil Grande Toca, we can see the false sleeve hang from the top of the head.

A few theories follow as to how the Huipil Grande came into fashion.

In 1524 the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alavarado and his troops arrived in Tehuantepec. It wasn’t long before Catholicism was enforced and churches were erected. Native women who only worn wrap skirts until that time were strictly instructed cover their exposed breasts before entering gods house.

One theory tells the tale of how a ship from Europe sunk off the coast of Tehuantepec and a cargo of white lace blouses washed up on shore. No knowing what they were the women put them on over their heads incorrectly, but the trend stuck. A similar theory according to Fernando Sanchez Marquez in the book, Oaxaca Stories in Cloth, by Eric Mindling, reads,

“One Sunday a indigenous women went to mass wearing her long skirt but was otherwise bare breasted. The priest stopped her at the door. “You cannot enter the church like that!” he said. He somehow acquired a girls Sunday dress. “Cover yourself up with this, and then you can come to church.” And she did. And it caught on.”

Until the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, Salina Cruz (only 17 km away from the town of Tehuantepec) was one of the major seaports in Mexico. Sailors, traders and diplomats from that sailed from Europe to Asian and then across the Pacific coast to Mexico brought with them fabrics, fashions and sewing materials from almost all corners of the world. Due to its strategic location, the Istmo of Tehuantepec became a confluence of cultures. According to Historian and Author Mario Mercott Francissco,

“Spanish, French, English, Polish, Italian, American and Chinese families lived in the Istmo around by the mid 19th century. Tehuana women were very good at taking inspiration from the various cultural fashions that came to Tehuantepec and making it their own. The flowers on the dresses were inspired by the Manilla Shawl from the Phillipines, the white lace ruffles from Elizabethan collars worn by the Spanish conquistadors, and the silk threads they did their embroidery with most likely came from China or Vietnam.”

Francissco shows us a variety of illustrations made by the Italian lithographer Claudio Linati (1 February 1790 – 11 December 1832) who arrived in the Istmo in 1826 and documented the traditional attire of the natives for the first time ever on record. His illustrations show a rebozo style garment hemmed with lace but no sleeves. Francissco believes that the sleeve was added much later purely for aesthetical reasons to help finish the corners of the rectangular fabric that would have otherwise been protruding out.

Evolution of the Tehuana dress

Illustration by artist and ethnographer Miguel Covarrubias

Prints made by lithographer Claudio Linatia around the mid 1820s show no sleeve down the centre front of the women’s Huipil Grande

Unlike fifty or more years ago the Huipil Grande is no longer worn for attending church on a Sunday. The remarkable accessory can only normally be seen during festivals such as the Guelaguetza, held in Oaxaca city on the last two weeks July, and Paseo de los Estandartes, held in Santo Domingo Tehuantepec on the 5th August. If you are heading to Mexico and love cultural fashion and textiles as much as we do, seeing the spectacular Resplandor worn in all it’s glory is an opportunity not to be missed. Scroll down to find out how you can visit Tehuantepec or why not join Haute Culture on our annual textile tour, MEXICO: FRIDA, FASHIONS, FABRICS & FIESTAS.

Huipil Grande, when worn in the Traje de Gala style, resembles sun beams similar to that of Mexico’s beloved Virgin Guadalupe.

Huipil Grande Traje de Gala requires the women wearing it to stand tall and proud.

The view from the back shows the head opening when worn in the Toca style and the two false sleeves hanging on either side.

Haute Culture would like to say a huge thank you to our translator Fernando Toledo Cruz and historian and author Mario Mercott Francissco for volunteering their time to share the history of the Huipil Grande with us.

Mr Fernando Toledo Cruz and Mr Mario Mercott Francissco

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