Cool vintage fabric - Need help with description please.

[thevintagebungalow]

I picked up some nice large pieces of vintage fabrics the other day. This is my favorite but I just can't think of how to describe the theme. Are the characters Jamaican? I'm going to list on ebay which I haven't done in a while and the key words are just not flowing easily! Thanks!!

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[Vintage_Visage]

I think Latin Spanish rumba? however you spell it... flamenco

 

[ivycompany]

Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Mambo

(and those music notes are cute, but bass-ackwards!)

 

[thevintagebungalow]

Originally posted by daisyfairbanks
Cuban, Afro-Cuban, Caribbean, Mambo

(and those music notes are cute, but bass-ackwards!)

That is hilarious, I didn't even notice the notes!!!

 

[thevintagebungalow]

I think I'll go with Caribbean...I like flamenco too!

 

[Vintage_Visage]

ty yeah I was laughing at the notes too.... I wonder if thery are from a certain song and due to coppyrights they are jacked for a reason? or the creator was an artist not a musician lol

 

[Vintage_Visage]

yeah I like carribean, I think of salsa too...... Cuba....

 

[thevintagebungalow]

This is what I ended up with:
The print is of caribbean men and women in full flamenco costume dancing in amongst purple palm trees. Bars of musical notes (albeit backwards notes) complete the fantastic design!

Thanks so much for your help!!!

 

[Vintage_Visage]

Sounds good,,, well reads good to me lol!

 

[Linn]

Flamenco is not correct - these costumes are quite different from Flamenco. Carribean or Latin American works - you could mention the Bongo drums and the maracas. I'd throw in the word "whimsical" - or fantasy. Certainly colorful.

Cute fabric.

Linn

 

[Vintage_Visage]

Ty linn,

May I ack for educational purposes what are the characteristics of Flamenco costume? layers like the Banana chick?

Tryule interested as I see that term quite often on Ebay and it varies a lot!

 

[Linn]

The skirts are long and very ruffled. Here are the results for a search for Flamenco dance images:

http://tinyurl.com/22rp83j

Linn

 

[joules]

Yes, no Flamenco here. Anything with purple palm trees though, well, that's for me! Calypso.

 

[Vintage_Visage]

ohhh calypso.......

 

[Metro Retro Vintage]

Those drums are 'conga' and they appear to be stylized Cuban dancers doing the mambo or guaracha. Flamenco is Spanish (European) and these are Latin American dancers.

 

[joules]

Mambo! Even more exciting, and no doubt, correct.

 

[anothertimevintageapparel]

Shades of Desi with the conga drums. Fun novelty for sure!

 

[thespectrum]

Suzanne just beat me to it with the Desi Arnaz reference!

Every time I see those ruffled shirts & conga drums I can hear him singing...

Of course novelty print always works too as a KW.

 

[MyVintageCocktail]

I can see Cuban mambo or Trinidad & Tobago Calypso dancers here! Such cute fabric!

As others say, not flamenco.

 

[ivycompany]

Baba Loooooooooo.....!!!