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The squaw dress also shows influence from the New Look in fashion. [7] Using the term "squaw" to name the dresses evoked a connection to Native American culture. [20] In addition, the Native American roots of the design made the dresses seem like uniquely "American" clothing items. [1] The dress also became synonymous with the Southwest. [13]
Dolores Consuelo Barcelo Gonzales (June 6, 1907– 1994) was a Mexican–American fashion designer based in Tucson, Arizona.She is best known for blending Native American and Mexican clothing traditions to create distinctive southwest resort wear dresses known as patio dresses, the fiesta dresses, (also known as the pejorative squaw dress). [1]
The woman on the left is wearing a "Squaw Dress." Non-Native companies and individuals have attempted to use Native American motifs and names in their clothing designs. [87] As early as the 1940s, Anglo designers in the United States had developed a type of one and two-piece dresses called "squaw dresses."
The term squaw is considered offensive by Indigenous peoples in America and Canada due to its use for hundreds of years in a derogatory context [3] that demeans Native American women. This has ranged from condescending images (e.g., picture postcards depicting "Indian squaw and papoose") to racialized epithets.
Traditional Native American clothing is the apparel worn by the indigenous peoples of the region that became the United States before the coming of Europeans. Because the terrain, climate and materials available varied widely across the vast region, there was no one style of clothing throughout, [1] but individual ethnic groups or tribes often had distinctive clothing that can be identified ...
Gilberto Ortiz in 2015. In Mexico before 1950, many Indigenous communities were isolated and produced their own traditional clothing. As roads improved and people began moving from the countryside to cities, many put aside their traditional clothing, to blend in with their new cosmopolitan neighbors. [1]
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