Cristina Alvarez Tostado Pena - Fashion designer

Amazona & fashion designer Cristina Alvarez Tostado Peña.

This fashion designer knows her clientele: she's an escaramuza rider herself.

Cristina Alvarez Tostado Peña designs and creates the adelita uniforms for not only her own team, Los Olivos from Guadalajara, Mexico, but for teams across the nation who are part of Mexico's national sport of charreria.

Tostado Peña says she takes after her grandmother who worked in the fashion industry in the U.S., and today runs her own business : Ac Vestidos Disenos

This designer's dresses show great attention to detail, like these layered ruffles.

Cristina Alvarez Tosdado Peña.

Contacts

Email: acvestidos@gmail.com

Facebook: Ac Vestidos Disenos

Celular: 33.1469.3168

Nextel: 92*796131*6

 Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Mexico


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A rider from her team Los Olivos, from Guadalajara, Mexico, wears a design by Cristina Alvarez Tostado Pena.

Soledad Caldera - Escaramuza Fashion Designer

Soledad Caldera began running her own dress making operation in 1997 when she decided to start working for herself.

Out of a tiny studio in her city of Jerez de Garcia Salinas in Mexico's Zacatecas state, she started churning out her own clothing designs for the men and women of charreria, or Mexican rodeo.  Today she has a succesful business and operates her store Confecciones Caldera.

As a little girl Caldera started sewing clothes with her mother who made their family's everyday wear on her grandparent's ranch: Rancho Los Aparicios.

It was her upbringing on that  farm that inspired her to specialize in charro fashion. When she was a teenager in 1978, her family moved to the city where she started working as a seamstress for a store that specialized in cowboy wear. After 17 years, she struck out on her own.

Today Caldera travels all over Mexico and even as far as the U.S. to take the measurements for escaramuza teams that hire her to design their uniforms. She also designs quite a few charra wedding dresses and charra quinceaneara dresses.

Website : Confecciones Caldera

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Address

Francisco Villa 105

Jerez de Garcia Salinas

Zacatecas, Mexico

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Phone Numbers

 Called locally : 494.945.0504

Called from outside Jerez but within Mexico : 01.494.945.0504

 Called from the U.S.: 011.52.494.945.0504

Adelitas, Past and a Present of a Tradition

Oralia Ceron and Silvia Rojo  in Toluca, Nov. '09.

Have you ever seen a documentary video about the history of Mexican women on horseback?

Charreria researcher Oralia G. de Ceron, passionate to get to the root of things, gives us the film "Las Adelitas Pasado y Presente de una Tradicion," or "Adelitas, Past and a Present of a Tradition."

Finished in 2003, the film features interviews with the people who started the first escaramuza in 1953, including the parents of the six children from the families Camacho Elorriaga and Ruiz Loredo and the "children" themselves as adults.
 
Unfortunately, the film risks getting lost in the past, as it has not been marketed. If you're interested in her film, contact De Ceron directly.

De Ceron is known among escaramuza riders for her annual fashion shows about Mexico's traditional "rebozo," or shawl,  titled: "Rebozo Through Time."

Minerva Sckapole shows a "rebozo" in Toluca, Nov. 2009

The cat walk style shows are a fantastic way to see first hand Mexico's traditional indigenous and colonial clothing used by the women from the nation's various regions. De Ceron organizes the show along with Silvia Garcia de Rojo and Minerva Sckapole every year.

For details on upcoming events, contact De Ceron by email.

Contact for De Ceron

oraliaisabel@hotmail.com

Above is a gallery of photographs from De Ceron's event in 2009. Photos by Leslie Mazoch