Hi! first time on reddit not entirely sure how this works, but i could really use your guys expertise! I'm working on a little side project, a disney type retake on the story of "The Princess and The Pea" with Mexican/ Spanish culture influence. Unfortunately I'm not finding a lot of info on period fashion of Mexico and Spain. pictures would be most helpful, links, whatever. anything to better help me demonstrate latino period clothing. and yes i do know there's more to latino's then spanish influenced Mexico- and id like to include some of that too! it's a fantasy world remember, just like frozen and princess and the frog. It's influenced heavily by the culture and is intended to inspire the children of it by giving them a cartoon person to connect to. It's not about being perfect it's about respecting latino heritage. thank you for helping!
Depends on when do you want your story to take place, but first things that come to mind are the pinturas de casta, from 17 and 18 centuries, these were paintings of the different mixed population groups, like this, if you want a later period you can look up photos of the Mexican Revolution, and in both cases compare with the clothing used today by different indigenous groups to get more details.
The pinturas de casta were done in Perú as well, so to look up for those about México only make sure they refer to Nueva España. One well known name in this genre in the 18 century is Oaxaca born Miguel Cabrera. this is an image search of his pinturas de castas.
Hope this helps, but I´m no historian or anything, so hopefully someone with better knowledge can give you more info.
