which were adopted by the Bolivian cholitas along with the traditional shawl of Madrid, garments that today are an essential part of the Aymara girls’ traditional dress. The cholitas’ wardrobe ...

The story of Lita Gonzales and the Cholitas Escaladoras, a group of Aymara women climbers whose courageous journeys up ...

Bolivia's emblematic Cholitas fashion show returned on Friday, for an annual display designed to promote the Andean style and beauty of Aymara women. (AP video by Carlos Guerrero) Hamas set to ...

Walking the streets of Sucre, Bolivia, over a decade ago, photographer Delphine Blast was struck by the Aymara women and how they dressed in layered skirts and shawls, with a bowler hat perched ...

The history of the voluminous, traditional skirts worn by ... floats while wearing customary Indigenous dress. The fashion’s origin in Bolivia dates back to the 16th-century Spanish conquest.

Ten indigenous Aymara women slowly trek up a Bolivian mountainside in their traditional dress as a statement of their emancipation. The Climbing Cholitas of Bolivia Warmis is a group dedicated to ...

La Paz — Worker, union organizer, broadcaster, blogger and YouTuber Yola Mamani is speaking out for Bolivia ... who dress as cholas, intellectuals who reduce Aymara women to their traditional ...

Not so for this all-female skate crew in Cochabamba, Bolivia. They pair their Vans ... It's especially important to them to wear traditional dress at public events. "At first, I used to feel ...

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian ... The confrontations often involve colorful traditional clothing and a leather “montera” helmet with vibrant feathers that ...