The charro. The mounted cattle herder of Mexico. The Spanish vaquero.

The Charro.

Traditional Mexican cowboy costume.

The vaquero is generally the mounted cattle herder of Spain and many of its (former) Latin American colonies where he performs for example as Huaso (Chile), Gaucho (Argentina, Uruguay), Vaqueiro (Brazil) or Charro (Mexico) etc.

The traditional costume of the charro, or Mexican cowboy, consists of a short jacket and tight trousers, which are ornamented with heavy gold or silver embroidery. The huge felt sombrero is banded and laced with gold or silver braid.

Illustration by Jo Bartas

Continuing

Mexican Rancheros wearing sombreros by Carl Nebel.

The most interesting part of Mexico, by Carl Nebel 1836.

THE story of Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.

Las Tortilleras. Mexican native woman clothing.

La Mantilla. Traje por la mañana. Mexican Costumes.

An Argentine Gaucho in full costume, wearing the chiripa.

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Anne Bonny and Mary Read. Women pirates. The Golde Age of piracy.

Indigenous of Chapultepec. Around Mexico City 1840.

A Chola from La Paz wearing a Bowler hat.

Traditional Huaso costume from Chile.

Rumba costume. Woman from Cuba.

Ecuador woman with Panama hat.