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Aileen Ibardaloza sent me a body of work as a manuscript entitled traje de boda.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Aileen Ibardaloza sent me a body of work as a manuscript entitled traje de boda.
IDEAL READERS 2010
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Maybe it was the sequins on his brocaded matador uniform, called the traje de luces - suit of lights.
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Many doctors have coined a code word by asking if the patient is with "traje" or gift.
Cuba Journal 2010
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Even in the afterlife, a bullfighter wears his splendid traje de luces and fights a skeletal bull.
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/Craig McDean/Art + Commerce A traje de luces, or 'suit of lights,' from the 1950s-60s by Fermín that was once worn by the matador Antonio Ordóñez.
Between Heaven and Earth Laura Jacobs 2012
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One is struck by the correspondence between the ornate gold bullion that ornaments Spanish statues of the Virgin Mary and the same bullion that adorns the matador's traje de luces "suit of lights".
Between Heaven and Earth Laura Jacobs 2012
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Out on the circle of sand, a vast open-air theatre, still strut the men in their black winged caps, their neat black slippers, their sparkly traje de luces ( "suit of lights"), tighter on their taut bodies than seems either plausible or advisable, and their thick capes of DayGlo violet on one side and canary-yellow on the other.
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Women still avidly wear traje indigena, and many men sport a special kind of shorts with colorful patterns along the cuffs.
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The garments weren't just for visitors: Each town has its own traje indigena, brightly colored woven outfits, originally designed by Spanish colonists as a kind of uniform to tell who came from which village.
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