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Escaramuza Charra
Veronica Davila started riding horses at the age of three. By age four, she was competing in escaramuzas, synchronized riding demonstrations, in Monterrey, Mexico. Veronica wore this colorful dress in the early 2000s as captain of the escaramuza team La Valerntinas in San Antonio, Texas.
The dress tells a story of girls' strength as highly skilled riders and the Mexican American community's efforts to preserve and promote charreria -- a rich transnational tradition of the US Southwest rooted in Mexican and Mexican American ranch life and culture of the 1700s and 1800s. |