Latin American Fashion Reader Book

	Introduction	1
1	Visualizing difference : the rhetoric of clothing in colonial Spanish America	17
2	Fashioning independence : gender, dress and social space in postcolonial Argentina	31
3	The traveler's eye : Chinas Poblanas and European-inspired costume in postcolonial Mexico	44
4	Far eastern influences in Latin American fashions	66
5	Ixcacles : maguey-fiber sandals in Modern Mexico	79
6	"Why do gringos like black?" Mourning, tourism, and changing fashions in Peru	93
7	Dressed to kill : the embroidered fashion industry of the Sakaka of Highland Bolivia	114
8	Representations of tradition in Latin American boundary textile art	142
9	Ponchos of the river plate : Nostalgia for Eden	163
10	Mappin stores : adding and English touch to the Sao Paulo fashion scene	176
11	As she walks to the sea : a semiology of Rio de Janeiro	188
12	"Every girl had a fan which she kept always in motion" : Puerto Rican women's dress at a time of social and cultural transition	198
13	Guayaberismo and the essence of cool	213
14	Transvestite pedagogy : Jacqueline and Cuban culture	232
15	Frida and Evita : Latin American icons for export	247
16	Fashioning United States Salvadoranness : unveiling the faces of Christy Turlington and Rosa Lopez	263
17	Scattered bodies, unfashionable flesh	283