1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina The closer you get the

The closer you get the more you realize how brilliant the print really is and how fine the challis fabric is

Unlined in a matching tissue silk

Sort of like an extended apron mixed with a dress

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Pure Prada with a bit of a retro twist

1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina The closer you get theDesigner and artist, Tachi Castillo lived in Taxco Mexico and made pieces like this fantastic embroidered skirt by hand for the tourist market. Examples of her work are in museums like the FIDM in Los Angeles. Castillo was creative and her work went outside the typical skirts you see form this time period that typically depict Mexican Folklore and village life. Skirts like this are the exception this one for example depicts wild jungle animals