Banaue Ladies

This is a photo I took of women in Banaue, the rice terrace region on the island of Luzon, Philippines. Today I was looking at some of their fabric, a woven skirt, that I have hanging in the cottage as a room divider. I was curious about the current status of the steady decline in new generations giving up the garb.....everyone wants to wear tshirts and jeans now. So homogenized, all these remote tribal groups have lost centuries of traditional weaving, to the more comfortable and western tshirt and shorts.