Frances Solá-Santiago asked me and Sarah Scaturro to comment on Kim Kardashian’s wearing of Marilyn Monroe’s famed Jean Louis dress from 1962 for the 2022 Met Gala. For both Scaturro …

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Frances Solá-Santiago interviewed me for an article on Refinery29 about the history of the so-called Panama Hat: The “Panama hat” — characterized by a circular shape, thick band, and straw …

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The constant comparison of fashion in the Spanish American colonies with their European counterparts has resulted in a simplified narration of a more complex phenomenon that responds to the necessities, …

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The sombrero de paja toquilla (toquilla straw hat) is hand-woven from the boiled, dried, and bleached fibers of toquilla (carludovica palmata), which comes from a palm tree native to the Pacific coast …

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Bodily adornment was an important site for the construction and negotiation of identities in the early modern Spanish world. It became particularly important in the eighteenth century, as the Spanish …

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A ch’uspa (in Quechua) or huallqepo (in Aymara) is a bag used in the Andes to carry dried coca leaves since at least the beginning of the first millennium CE. …

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Cassidy Zachary interviewed me for Dressed: The History of Fashion. This is the second part of the interview, where we talked about the sartorial practices and symbolisms in Spain’s “Imperio …

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Cassidy Zachary interviewed me for Dressed: The History of Fashion. This is the first of two episodes that resulted from that interview, where we talked about the sartorial practices and …

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The sarape (or zarape) is an overgarment worn traditionally by men in rural areas throughout Mexico. It is often made of two matching rectangular panels, woven independently in two loom widths with a …

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The huipil is a blouse-like garment worn by women in Mesoamerica since at least 2,000 years ago [1]. The name huipil derives from the Nahuatl word “huipilli,” used by the …

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Fashion is an essential aspect of everyday life. This aspect, perhaps, has lead us to understand fashion as vain, superficial, unimportant. But fashion is at the center of multiple historical …

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Isabella Rosner interviewed me for her podcast, Sew What? We talked about my research on the consumption, dissemination, and representation of dress and practices of self-fashioning in 18th-century colonial Spanish …

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