TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Antique Vintage Filipina Dresses #Philippines #sayas

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Antique Vintage Filipina Dresses #Philippines #sayas

I'm featuring antique/vintage dresses worn by my Cuenco relatives. These antique Filipina gowns and clothes are now gone. My aunt, Teresita Cuenco Gonzalez, told me that during World War II in Cebu, they cut up the old gowns to make into other dresses to sell, to help them survive.

Take the time to study these antique/vintage dresses. They come from a time that is no more.

The top picture is my mother, Concepcion Cuenco. My mother is the one in the middle of the children's picture.

Concepcion Cuenco

l-r: Consuelo Cuenco, Carmen Cuenco

Family of Mariano and Filomena Cuenco (my mother, Concepcion) is second from the left)

My grandmother Filomena Alesna Cuenco

Filomena Cuenco

Adults l-r: Filomena Cuenco, Lourdes Cuenco

Lourdes Cuenco

l-r: Milagros Veloso Cuenco and Manuel Cuenco

Teresita Cuenco

Cuenco Family, photo circa 1912 (my mother is the youngest girl holding a doll)

Cebu Politics Philippines: Cebu's Cuenco Family in 1932

Cebu's Old Jesuit House of 1730

Tags: Cebu, Philippines, vintage, antique, dresses, Filipina, gowns, sayas, dress design, clothes, Cuenco

This is all for now,

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.