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Glengarry530 May 2014 10:40 p.m. PST

Not colour photos but colour plates!

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It's a good introduction to the period and I found it a great read on a complex subject.

pigbear31 May 2014 4:21 a.m. PST

How about try Google? I did an image search for "mexican folk costume early 20th century" and came up with plenty.

rdg112515 Aug 2014 11:19 p.m. PST

Here's two links that may help:

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Henry Martini16 Aug 2014 7:53 a.m. PST

I think Zapata westerns are a reasonably reliable guide; from what I've seen their research seems to have been quite adequate, so take a look at 'Villa Rides' and others of its ilk.

The costume designer for 'And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself' seems to have gone for a deliberately stylised, drab, washed-out look for the revolutionaries, who consequently mostly seem to be effectively in light khaki.

The rest is just a matter of looking at period photos and applying common sense.

I went with mostly drab shades for my Villistas jackets and trousers: assorted browns, red-browns, tans, greys, grey-browns, blue-greys, and grey-greens, with some understated dark or dull blues and greens, and felt hats in various shades of brown, tan, grey, grey-brown and black, (think Boers with a touch more colour). Shirts, where visible, can be almost any colour, but with white/off-white predominating. Any clothing items, but most commonly shirts and trousers, could be striped, usually vertically.

Zapatistas (peons) are in white/off-white shirts, and trousers mostly in the same range, with some of the latter in tans and grey-browns. Sashes were painted in brighter shades such as red and green.

Straw hats on all types were painted in a range of light khaki/sandy shades dry-brushed with a pale cream shade.

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