Kim Zolciak In Her Used, $58,000 Wedding Dress

Kim Zolciak spent a staggering $58,000 on her wedding dress -- and now we're getting our first shot of the "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star wearing it!The reality star posted the first pic from her wedding day with new hubby Kroy Biermann on her Twitter, with the message "Our wedding photo!!!!! The best day of my life!!!!"The gown was actually from a website called PreownedWeddingDresses.com, where people can buy used dresses.Kim's Baracci stunner was covered in Swarovski crystals, pearl beads and platinum coated thread.What do you think of the gown, keeping in mind she planned the whole wedding in just a month?
Rural Mexico began to change in the 1950s, however, and agricultural production dropped in the fields at the same time that highways were built to connect once isolated towns to main cities.Instead of producing the clothing for everyday use, artisans began to showcase their work at local fairs and sell them to tourists. Some stopped teaching their children how to make textiles, and many stopped wearing the traditional clothing to avoid being looked down upon after leaving their towns.
In many places, only one family or a person in a town remembers how to weave the huipil, Fuentes said."Many weavers never wanted to share this knowledge," she said. "They passed away taking it to the afterlife."Now, the craft behind the clothing has become a precious commodity as contemporary designers liberally use the garments in their creations, often cutting the original pieces or sewing in silk to make the thick indigenous clothes more wearable and form-fitting."We can't design before having the textile," Fosado said. "We are the ones who adapt to them."
Fuentes says some designers shun altering the Indian clothes and argue that some of the designs should remain intellectual property of the towns they come from.Ana Echeverri, popular culture expert at the National Council for Culture and Arts, said modern designs should still be woven with the backstrap technique.In the hip neighborhood of La Condesa, designer Carmen Rion showcases blouses, dresses and shawls that are completely woven and left nearly unaltered. Rion said she never cuts the woven cotton fabric out of respect for the shape of the original Indian designs, which are crafted by 40 artisans from the southern state of Chiapas.

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