1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina The waist nips in and

The waist nips in and a jaunty pearl and sequin encrusted pocket sits on one hip

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

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

Length: 52" from neck to hem

1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina The waist nips in andDesigner 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