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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tyeldom3, post: 92834, member: 43&quot;]Good point Greg, I had to investigate that, Thank you for helping me learn.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;A rather simple form of attire, a sarape is curiously difficult to describe. In a way, it’s just a blanket, or a poncho with no hole in the center, although there’s generally a circular or diamond-shaped decorative motif where the head-hole would be. Its simplicity made the garment versatile. It could be worn over one’s head as a rain jacket, thrown over one’s shoulders as a cloak, draped around one’s neck as a shawl or scarf, or spread out as a blanket. When rolled behind a saddle, it provided a striking ornament. By the 1830s, as we know from costume prints by figures such as Carl Nebel, Mexican men wore sarapes in all these different ways. Women didn’t wear them. Eye-catching and decorative, sarapes let men to play the peacock.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>That was taken from this page here:</p><p><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/latin-americas-wrap-for-all-seasons-112403979/?no-ist" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/latin-americas-wrap-for-all-seasons-112403979/?no-ist" rel="nofollow">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/latin-americas-wrap-for-all-seasons-112403979/?no-ist</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and also</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serape" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serape" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serape</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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