Awash in a riot of tropical feathers, draped in endless stands of eye-popping beads and topped off by headdresses that look like they deserve their own zip codes, host city Palmas has earned itself the title of world fashion capital — at least for the nine-days of the event. Eyes dart from the Bolivian women in their bowler hats, to dancers from Canada in buttery suede dresses hung with jangling metal ornaments, and come to rest finally on the Amazon-dwelling Kamayura men whose headdresses look like giant spider webs made out of feathers. While most people were content to small designs on their triceps or calves, a bold few took the plunge, stripping down to their underwear to get whole-body paint jobs or even intricate webs all over their faces. Headdresses have proven another popular product among the indigenous vendors hawking everything from so-called "nose whistles" — little wooden contraptions that fit over nose and mouth to emit convincing bird calls — to an almost life-sized broad-snouted caiman made from an artfully burned tree trunk.
Comment on Indigenous Games bring fashion to Brazil's interior
By JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: World
Fri, 10/30/2015 - 12:48pm
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