1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina Sort of like an extended

Sort of like an extended apron mixed with a dress

This is a stunning silk twill dress fashioned along a Westernized version of the cheongsam

The back has an almost sack back drape to it which extends across the front in and narrows into two little pointed corners

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

1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina Sort of like an extendedDesigner 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