TOP: Tehuana huipil dress in wine-colored crêpe-back satin, with giant flowers embroidery on crochet and, on the back, further embroidery with yellow filling stitches to form a weave around the flowers. Being more complex and, therefore, also more expensive, these handmade embroidered patterns are indicative of a higher social status of Tehuana women.
BOTTOM: pleated skirt embroidered in the same techniques, with white pleated lace flounce, and underskirt to give volume.
ACCESSORIES: typical floral headgear, mantilla woven with traditional loom.
RELEVANT DETAILS: Frida used this eccentric combination of colors (wine purple and yellow) in several self-portraits, still lifes and also in many of her dresses.
In her daily use of it, she maintained that wine purple represented tuna’s blood, the most vivid and ancient, while yellow represented madness, disease, fear, but also the sun that gives life and joy.