1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina Unlined in a matching tissue

Unlined in a matching tissue silk

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

Sort of like an extended apron mixed with a dress

Item# DD1360

The back has an almost sack back drape to it which extends across the front in and narrows into two little pointed corners

1950s Embroidered Mexican Castillo Skirt designer-teal-traina Unlined in a matching tissueDesigner 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