EL ALTO, BOLIVIA — Those stained T-shirts and stretched-neck sweaters you clean out of your closet may one day wind up heaped waist-high on a plastic tarp in this chilly Andean city's vast outdoor ...

With their pleated skirts and bowler hats the “cholita” women are a common sight in Bolivia’s administrative capital La Paz.

Used clothing vendors in Bolivia are protesting the government's decision to ‘reconvert’ this industry through financial incentives. Carlos Gustavo Machiado of Guccio's [es] believes that stopping ...

All kinds of wear, from the long skirts known as “urkhus” used by women of the Bolivian altiplano to the tunics made of tree bark worn by several indigenous peoples in the eastern part, are now on ...