1940s ERA. Navajo Outfit.



SWAIA Fashion Show participant in Santa Fe, NM
Photo by Venaya Yazzie
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2013

 I captured this images during the SWAIA Indigenous Fashion Show in August 2013. This Navajo child was participating in the Children's Traditional Clothing Fashion Show.

Here we see the full outfit which includes a five-tiered gathering skirt and collared blouse made in some type of velvet material. The designer, which they announced was the child's grandmother, used rick rack trim to re-create that uniquely NAVAJO design made popular in the 1940s era of the southwest. Her outfit is finished with a woven wool sash belt, silver concho belt and traditional Navajo hair ADORNMENT.