sombreras

Updated: May 10, 2025

The human aspect is also curious. Palmetto hats, light blouses, and white trowsers form the prevailing costume, even of the clergy, while Germans smoke chibouks and luxuriate in their shirt-sleeves southerners, with the enervated look arising from residence in a hot climate, lounge about the streets dark-browed Mexicans, in sombreras and high slashed boots, dash about on small active horses with Mamelouk bits rovers and adventurers from California and the Far West, with massive rings in their ears, swagger about in a manner which shows their country and calling, and females richly dressed are seen driving and walking about, from the fair- complexioned European to the negress or mulatto.

Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird - The Englishwoman in America