There has been a lot going on in San Cris in the weeks that we have been here.  Both before Easter and the week after are busy with events. Easter parades, music events, art shows.  There's been something going on everyday.  Yesterday in the zocalo there was a demonstration of techniques by both weavers and those doing fine embroidery work.  We spoke to the coordinator of the event and she said that it was to honor the 1,000 textile workers killed a year ago in a Bangladesh factory.   I can recognize the differences in the traditional dress of the women from the two villages that we visited.  I also have a copy of a book here in our guesthouse that describes the clothing and the history behind it of about twenty villages in the area. The traditional dress has greatly been influenced by outside forces as well as one village influencing another village.  In the 1990's women from a church in the USA brought sweaters to one group of villagers.  I don't know about changing religious beliefs but it had a long term effect on fashion and and also brought about a change in the kind of blouse that those woman began making to go with those sweaters.