Dancing with Tehuanas

“Mi vestido soy yo,” Frida Kahlo used to say—my clothing is me. More than 60 years after the Mexican artist’s death, her colorful embroidered clothing and vibrant skirts are still very much alive both in her self-portraits and beyond. Kahlo’s look was inspired by the traditional clothes of the Tehuantepec region of southeast Mexico, where women often earn more money than their husbands and administer the family assets
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