Escaramuza: Soul, Life & Heart

One of Mexico City´s first escaramuza fairs of 2014 showcased young riders and teams that had just recently formed. This audiovisual brings you some of the sites and sounds from the event, hosted by the escaramuza team Santa Rosa de Lima at their lienzo Charro del Peñon. A rider explains why she loves her sport so much, and the announcer talks about the women´s soul, life and heart over the speaker system.

The courage and enthusiasm of these young horsewomen was palpable. To close the event, they gathered inside the arena for the awards ceremony, but it was clear to all that the most important thing to them was their love for their charreria sport : Escaramuza.

For English subtitles, after clicking ¨play,¨then click the CC at the bottom right of the youtube window.

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

Janett Santillan Hernandez - Escaramuza Dressmaker

Photo by Leslie Mazoch

Janett Santillan Hernández
Zumpango, Mexico State, Mexico
Cell: 55.1913.2466
E-mail: excaramuzamexicana@yahoo.com.mx

Janett Santillan Hernandez graduated with a university degree in fashion design in 1993. Ever since she proposed to make the dresses for her escaramuza team, the Anahuac de Tecamac, her designs have focused on "charras," Mexico's female horse riders of charreria.

Santillan's father makes traditional charro hats and her brother makes boots especially for escaramuza riders. Santillan's shop is located in Zumpango, a city in the state of Mexico.