It's our last week here in Seville! So I'm finally getting around to what I've been meaning to do the entire time I've been here -- put up a flamenco fashionista post.
To celebrate the Feria (April Fair), the girls here all get decked out in the newest style of flamenco dresses. The festival lasts for an entire week, and often music, dancing, and celebrations are non-stop for 24 hours. Naturally, each girl wants to out-do all the others, so it's simply not acceptable to keep wearing the same dresses year after year, and certainly not for the entire week. 
Because they need to show off all the right curves, all the dresses get tailored to fit and the wearable dresses all start around 400-500 euro. To my un-trained eye, I could barley differentiate between the styles when I first arrived. All I saw were yards of ruffles and polka-dots. Hopefully from these photos you'll be able to distinguish more than me!
Even the littlest of girls get dresses - but these can get retailored a few years to let out more material so parent's don't have to break the bank every year with new dresses.
The accessories are composed of a big bud of fake flower in the hair, long dangling earrings and chunky necklaces and bracelets of every color and pattern to match the dresses. Needless to say, there will be a riot of color at the Feria.
One of the Germans in our Spanish classes was working now at the Flamenco museum, so I was treated to a free tour of their museum as well as a free Flamenco show (photos later). It was superb, and I got to see the costumes that the Flamenco stars wore from decades before. The woman who sponsored the museum, Cristina Hoyos, is a world-famous flamenco star whose career spanned almost four decades. 
This dress is particularly well known because it is the original that Cristina Hoyos wore for a dance during the inauguration ceremonies for the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona.
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