Today, I would like to show you a video about the life of several ladies, from a village of Cuenca, who have dedicated their lives to the seam. If you want to watch this video, please click on the link below:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/aqui-la-tierra/aqui-tierra-homenaje-modistas/3760325/
Marta Marquez (Reporter of the program “Aqui la tierra”): “Hello, Esperanza……., How are you?”
Esperanza (A dressmaker): “Very well, And you?”
Marta: “Well ... how elegant you are ... You are dressmaker, right?”
Esperanza Martinez (A retired dressmaker): “My sister is the dressmaker and we were the helpers”
Marta: “What is the most special piece that you have been able to make?”
Esperanza: “A wedding dress…”
Marta: “Wedding….?!!!!!”
Esperanza: “And formal dress….when they went for Christmas holidays and New Year ..... once, we made a cape of velvet for a lady....”
Marta: “Wow, like Ramon Garcia in the strokes…..Did you make the cape for Ramón García…..?”
Esperanza: “No, I have not done anything to Ramón”
………..music………………..
Esperanza: “Paquita…., open!!!”
Marta: “Like in the village….”
Esperanza: “that they are looking for you”
Marta: “How are you, Paquita…..?”
Paquita: “Very well, thanks to God”
Marta: “The dressmaker of the village….”
Paquita: “The best”
Marta: “Paquita: What we do now?”
Paquita: “Going to my home, that everything is ready”
……music…….
Marta: “It is a profession that is being lost, right?”
Paquita: “That yes”
Marta: “Of course, because what people does is going to buy clothes to shops”
Paquita: “They call me: If you made it to me, I would not buy it”
Marta: “How is it going?”
Paquita: “You are doing great, because you are a good youth, a fine and you take a fullness .........And how am I?”
Marta: “Look…..of course…..Look how well the fullness…..So, Right?....So, of course!”
Paquita: “Your love, that you have…..”
……………….music………………………..
Paquita Martinez (Retired dressmaker): “The needle and thread strand”
Marta: “For….?”
Paquita: “To thread the needle”
Marta: “I do not know….”
Paquita: “Do not you know to threat it…?, then learn”
Marta: “I do not sew….!”
Paquita: “Well, you have yto learn….”
Marta: “I take it to my mother….”
Esperanza: "Everything is well for mothers….”
Marta: “How is it?”
Paquita: “Bad”
Marta: “Why?”
Paquita: “Because yes”
Marta: “Did you sing, when you sewed….”
Paquita: “Of everything”
………………….music………………
Marta: "How many dresses had you made, totally….., how many?”
Paquita: “Uhhhhhh….Two hundred thousand”
Marta: “Have you ever made a dress to any well-known person?"
Paquita: “For example artist?”
Marta: “Yes……., to whom?”
Paquita: “Well to Rocío Jurado”
Marta: “Wow!.., Yes?... It is a lie, right? ... you say it to say the least....”
Paquita: “Let us go for a walk…….”
Marta: “Wow…, will we make look good, and will we walk around the village....?”
Esperanza: “Yes, yes…., now yes””
Marta: “Well, perfect….!”
………………music…………………..
Esperanza: “Mrta: Are you already going out or not?”
Marta: “Here I am….How is it…., look at me…..”
Esperanza: “Very well”
Marta: “Oops ... she is very creative ..... Now we are already made some models .... models from Minglanilla .... Are we going to walk around the viillage?”
Esperanza: “Yes!”
Paquita: “Yessssss”
Marta: “Well, come on!, let us go!..., let´s see if we are going to find some suitors……..”
Well, I hope that you have liked this video.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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