Women's Dress, Chocó

During the colonial period, Chocó was region known for its gold and silver mines, mainly exploited by African slaves, which were able to retain and influence the region with their traditional culture which mixed with both Indigenous and Spanish influences creating the basis of Chocoano culture; like many other regions of the Nueva Granada, the traditional garments were clearly inspired by the Spanish elites as replicas for the mix race population.

Chocoano women, who were mainly mine workers, needed clothing that satisfied the needs for a more comfortable work attire inside mines, making their clothing very simple, with an airy and wider cotton blouse, that could lack sleeves on some parts of the region. The small amount of decoration this woman got for their clothing would be on the blouse with simple embroidery and folds. From 1850 till later decades, woman skirt started to become wider based on the Imported style of Rococo and the republican French ideal that came into region as slave work and mine work decayed on Chocó.