Fashion in 18th-Century Colonial Spanish America: An Interview with Laura Beltrán-Rubio

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03/09/2020 37 min Temporada 1 Episodio 17
Fashion in 18th-Century Colonial Spanish America: An Interview with Laura Beltrán-Rubio

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In this episode, Isabella interviews Laura Beltrán-Rubio, a PhD student who focuses on the consumption, dissemination, and representation of dress and practices of self-fashioning in 18th-century colonial Spanish America (specifically modern-day Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela). The two discuss surviving South American costume and textiles, the presence of needlework in the Spanish colonies, and learning how to stitch from your grandmother.As always, images and resources discussed in this episode are available on the "Sew What?" Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages.

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