Cuba Pearl Wedding Party Fashion Jewelry 100

Cuba Pearl Wedding Party Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Manan.

Today many Cuban women wear clothing based in tradition and culture, according to the Journeywoman website. Traditional outfits involve bright colors, such as red, orange, purple and baby blue and patterns such as stripes and polka dots. Tube tops or tightly fitting, sleeveless blouses with a low cut are paired with a short skirt. Journeywoman also notes that while Cuban women are comfortable and safe in this ensemble, visiting women should wear more conservative attire.

The guayabera is a lightweight, pleated, button-down shirt, typically with four large pockets on the front and an embroidered design. The shirt is often white and made of cotton or linen, though women periodically where guayberas in other colors. The shirts are rumored to have originated in Cuba's Sancti Spiritus by farm workers who turned linen sheets into shirts with large pockets to hold their cigars. Today the shirt is required wear at state functions for both female and male government officials, notes The Guardian's website. Women also periodically wear a guayabera dress, fashioned after the shirt, though the top is more popular.

15th Birthday Attire

Croatia Bridal Weddings Pearl Women Fashion Jewelry 99

Croatia Bridal Weddings Pearl Women Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan. 

Croatia People of Croatia have a phenomenal heritge, which is their traditional clothing worn by them, who not only live in the Republic of Croatia but also by the other Croats who are scattered in different areas of other Central European states. This is also a bitter fact that the most of the Croats have left the centuries old custom of wearing the traditional dress of Croatia and use Western-style clothing on a daily basis. Now, the traditional attires are worn by the people of Croatia on the events of national importance, festive moments, wedding celebrations and religious ceremonies.

The women or Croatia in traditional cpstumes - Image :Radio Velika Goriaca - RVG

The women or Croatia in traditional cpstumes – Image :Radio Velika Goriaca – RVG

The females of Croatia usually wear the dresses that consist a plain white dress or blouse (košulja) or underskirt (skutići), which is usually the basic form of the costume. It is then added with other clothing and decorations, which may include another overdress or skirt (kotula), a decorative jacket (djaketa, paletun or koret), apron (ogrnjač or pregjača), scarf (ubrsac), kerchief or shawl which are usually decorated with a floral or animal motif. The embroidery is very intricate and is usually red, white, blue, gold, or black.

A Croat Girl in traditional attire - paul Barker Hemings

A Croat Girl in traditional attire – paul Barker Hemings

The women of Croatia also wear a lot of traditional jewellery, ranging from necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and rings could consist of gold, silver, beads, pearls, or even corral from the Adriatic . Hair is interwoven into one or two braids and decorated with red ribbons for girls or women that are unmarried, while married women wear woven or silk kerchiefs on their heads. Costumes of brides consists of a crown or wreath often made of flowers (vijenac) and large amounts of jewelry.

Ivory Coast Stylish Pearl Wedding Fashion Jewelry 98

Ivory Coast Stylish Pearl Wedding Women Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

Ivorian Women Characteristics:

It should be known there are 60 different ethnic groups in the Ivory Coast however most of its people are black. The women are tall, usually have high cheekbones, full lips, and very curvy... well... certain parts of their bodies which men find very attractive. Affluent ladies do wear cosmetics, and dress extremely well with modesty. Bright colors, long skirts and dresses are the outfits of choice. A lot of these women wear beautiful wraps around their heads as well. Also, religion will dictate her dress code.

Education was improving significantly until ten years ago, however male literacy rate is considerably lower than female. She has a 57% chance of being literate and only a 70% chance of being educated all together. A lot affluent ladies are not educated either. Women here are encouraged by the government to pursue careers in business, take on political seats, and participate in the workforce, however gender bias has bearing on this and men continue to dominate on every level.

Ivorian women are more apt to have 5 children, marry young, and work the home front by growing food, weaving, and all domestic duties. Extended families are extremely important, especially in the rural areas. In the cities it is more likely for nuclear family lifestyles.

Costa Rica Wedding Pearl Women Fashion Jewelry 97

Costa Rica Wedding Pearl Women Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

im 16 years old and for a school field trip im going to Costa Rica in March. Me and about 30 other north americans are going. i have heard that woman shouldn't wear shorts that arent knee length and no tank tops. also that because that i am from noth america that the costa rican boys will whisle at us. is this true? or are my teachers parnoid? Are their any other dangers i should know about the people in Costa Rica. We also are told we shouldn't wear two peice bathing sutes or wear a shirt. is the harrassment that bad? also that we may be "hit on" and asked to get marryed??? because we are of legal marrying age.

please help me. the more my teacher drag on about this the more it worrys me. lol are americans seen as loose? i was told that also.

anything that you could tell me about the people in costa rica would be nice. also this info can be shared with my classmates so we can be safe. i have read about the petty crime about the pickpocketing. so i know about that, but this dress code stuff, im not use to it so i dont believe it. i dont know how i would be able to wear pants in 80 degree weather! I'm from New York USA so the shorts and sun is a VERY nice break..

Cook Islands Women Fashion Pearl Jewelry 96

Cook Islands Women Fashion Pearl Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

Designers on Rarotonga are hand-screening Polynesian-inspired images on fabrics to create small but interesting ranges of clothing for women, men and children. These are distinctive designs printed on quality fabrics.

Lengths of fabric can be bought to take home as well, to use in a variety of ways including window drops, curtains, wall hangings, bed covers, throws or wraps. Or made up into unique made-to-measure garments.

There is plenty of choice in the cheap and cheerful holiday range on Rarotonga with several outlets selling clothes imported from Bali, Indonesia, India, China and Australia.

Others have popular brands of surf clothing for youngsters and the young at heart.

T-shirts are always in demand and Cook Islands designers have taken them to a new level with an enormous range of cheeky souvenir Tees. Those looking for something more aesthetic will enjoy the Polynesia-inspired designs by local artists.

Congo, Republic Wedding Bridal Fashion Jewelry 95

Congo, Republic Wedding Bridal Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan. 

The main languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are French, (Ki)swahili, Lingala, Tshiluba and Kikongo, but there are over 200 languages and dialects spoken by around 250 ethnic groups. Over 70% Congolese are Christians, the rest follow African religions, Islam and other beliefs. Around 68% work in agriculture, 19% in services and 13% in the industrial sector. Many people in rural areas live without electricity; water sources are mostly unprotected and subject to contamination. Infections and parasitic diseases claim many lives, with the mortality rate for children under 5years being very concerning.

Education for the African population has been almost non-existent for a long time under the Belgium colonial rule. The little infrastructure that was built under colonialism focused on commercial exploitation of the territory rather than public welfare. Since the independence from Belgium in 1960 extreme political, social and economical instability has been dominant.
The years after independence were shadowed by civil war. In the mid 1990s the conflict in neighbouring Rwanda and Burundi had spread to the Tutsi group in eastern Congo. Civil disorder followed. When president Laurent Desire Kabila, who came into power backed up by Rwandan troops in 1997, shifted away from his alliance with Rwandan and Ugandan troops and ordered them home, a protracted civil war broke out. The eastern provinces of DRC are still under war-like situations, with monitoring by United Nations peacekeeping forces and the national army. People in this area are under constant threat. Most of the visitors in our group are from the eastern part of Congo, and have lived in refugee camps for many years. This has resulted in low literacy for many, as well as trauma. All are in Australia on humanitarian visas.

Democratic Republic Congo Pearl Fashion Jewelry 94

Democratic Republic Congo Pearl Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan. 

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (French: République démocratique du Congo), sometimes referred to as DR Congo, DRC, Congo-Kinshasa, Zaire-Congo, DROC,[5][6] or RDC, is a country located in the African Great Lakes region of Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world. With a population of over 75 million,[1] the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the nineteenth most populous nation in the world, the fourth most populous nation in Africa, as well as the most populous officially Francophone country.

It is bordered by the Central African Republic and South Sudan to the north; Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi in the east; Zambia and Angola to the south; the Republic of the Congo, the Angolan exclave of Cabinda, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west; and is separated from Tanzania by Lake Tanganyika in the east.[1] The country has access to the ocean through a 40-kilometre (25 mi) stretch of Atlantic coastline at Muanda and the roughly 9 km wide mouth of the Congo River which opens into the Gulf of Guinea. It has the second-highest total Christian population in Africa.

Colombia Wedding Bridal Pearl Fashion Jewelry 93

Colombia Wedding Bridal Pearl Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

Colombia's second most famous export is, arguably, its 'naturally' beautiful women.

But a behind-the-scenes look at Colombia fashion week reveals the Colombian obsession with plastic 

surgery and the dubious trend of 'narco beauty.'

The documentary is the latest installment in the Fashion Week Internationale series, and far from the westernised stereotypes at much-hyped New York, London, Paris and Milan fashion weeks, the Vice series explores the oddities of some of the world's lesser-known fashion events.

All the ladies: While Medellin's Colombia Moda fashion week veers towards thinner models, an alternative fashion week is all about showing off the city's trend of plastic surgery +8

All the ladies: While Medellin's Colombia Moda fashion week veers towards thinner models, an alternative fashion week is all about showing off the city's trend of plastic surgery

And Medellin's fashion showcases are far from usual.

Model and presenter Charlet Duboc contrasts the less traditional and more international - if a little classist - Colombia Moda fashion week with the city's alternative, more accessible fashion event, Moda Para El Mundo.

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While models at fashion week proper have a 'matured' look - tall, skinny girls with high cheekbones and ethereal beauty, shunning the fuller figures of which the country is so proud - some aspects of the week are stuck in something of a culture warp, with one runway decorated with a vast mountain of fake cocaine.

An underwear show sees bright bikinis leaving little to the imagination of models' perfect, though often far-from-natural, bodies.

Shake that ass: Colombian fashion week shows seem to be rather more about the bodies wearing the clothes than the designs themselves +8

Comoros Wedding Pearl Bridal Fashion Jewelry 92

Comoros Wedding Pearl Bridal Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

10 Corso Como is a shopping and dining complex in Milan, Italy. It combines outlets that show and sell works of art, fashion, music, design, cuisine and culture.[1][2] It was founded in 1990 in Milan, Italy, by gallerist and publisher Carla Sozzani.

The complex began with an art gallery and a bookshop. Other spaces soon followed: a design and fashion store in 1991, the 10 Corso Como Cafè in 1998, a small hotel (with only three rooms) in 2003 and the Roof Garden in 2009.[9]

10 Corso Como and the 10 Corso Como logo are designed by American artist Kris Ruhs.[2] In 2002, 10 Corso Como opened in Tokyo in partnership with Comme des Garçons, designed 

by Rei Kawakubo and Kris Ruhs.[7]

In 2008, 10 Corso Como opened in Seoul in partnership with Samsung Cheil, Samsung Group, designed by Kris Ruhs.[7]

On 9 September 2011, 10 Corso Como celebrated its 20 year anniversary. On 31 March 2012, 10 Corso Como opened its second location in Seoul - 10 Corso Como at AvenueL, also designed by Kris Ruhs.[3]

10 Corso Como Shanghai, designed by kris Ruhs, opened on 14 September 2013 at 1717 Nanjing West Road at Wheelock Square.

Cocos Islands Women Pearls Fashion Jewelry 91

Cocos Islands Women Pearls Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan. 

Women entrepreneurs reinvest about 90 percent of their revenues back to their community, compared to 40 percent for men,” Arancha Gonzalez, Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), said Thursday.

The ITC has established the Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI) aimed at promoting fair wages for dignified work in the fashion industry in Africa and Haiti.

Some of the most marginalised groups, essentially poor female artisans, have been linked to some of the top fashion houses in the world like Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, and Marni.

Under that initiative, the organisation has not only trained women through the stages of production, but also offered assistance for women’s economic independence by encouraging them to open their own bank accounts or familiarise them with business models and entrepreneurship.

According to the World Bank’s 2013 database, 38 out of 141 economies helped establish equal legal rights for women and men in key areas to female entrepreneurship such as opening a bank account, getting a job without permission from their spouse, and owning and managing property.

Central African Women Pearl Fashion Bridal Jewelry 90

Central African Women Pearl Fashion Bridal Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan. 

Many people in the Central African Republic like living traditionally. Though there are those who have adopted French customs, most prefer to live the way of their parents and forefathers. A lot of them place emphasis on clothing; women wear loose tops and a length of cloth (pagne) around the waist as a skirt. The men’s clothing on the other hand may look like pajamas but are something of a fashion statement in the country. The pajamas have block printed African designs on them. Batiks and tie-and-dyes are common.

The tradition of storytelling still lives on in the country. Some of the folklore is sung to the accompaniment of drums or traditional instruments like the ‘ngombi’ (ten stringed harp) and ‘sanza’ (guitar). The legends of the tribe ‘Gbaya’ are especially prolific and some of these have been translated into French. The French themselves have their own memoirs and accounts of events, some fictional, in their own language.

Since ancient times, the Aka Pygmies have used the drum as a ‘bush telephone’, sending messages to far flung areas warning of impending danger or announcing the king’s diktat. The music of CAR today is influenced by Caribbean and Latin American rhythms. Horns, flutes, whistle and voice ensembles make up their music, with a curious and haunting harmony. Every social ceremony must have music and dance – it is a mark of their celebration of life.

Christmas Island Fashion Pearl Wedding Jewelry 89

Christmas Island Fashion Pearl Wedding Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan 

The exhibition is a biography, in clothes, of a woman who once said that the mood-altering effect of hats was better than antidepressants, but who took her own life. Fashion was the great love of Blow's life, the focus of her passion and talent – but towards the end, she felt that the designers she had nurtured had left her behind. This is an exhibition with a very clear agenda: to give Blow the place in fashion history that she deserves. Driven in large part by her friends Daphne Guinness and Treacy, the show gives Blow a posthumous third act. In other words, this is not just hats, it is the backstory of modern British fashion being rewritten.

Did you know, for example, that in 18th-century France there was a fashion for elegant women to wear model ships in their hair, to celebrate French victories over the English at sea? I didn't, until I learned from the caption accompanying the "galleon" hat that it was this story, told by Isabella to Philip Treacy, that inspired it. Blow had a wealth of knowledge about history, and about the countryside and nature – she was a great lover of gardens, and roses – and a knack for plucking out colourful titbits with which to feed her proteges. Blow told her own story in hats: her fondest memory of her mother, who famously offered her 14-year-old daughter a formal handshake on the day she left the family home, was being allowed to try on her pink hat. The story she liked to tell about meeting her husband Detmar Blow began with him complimenting her hat.

It is a story about the power of fashion – and its limitations

Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!

China Women Fashion Pearl Wedding Jewelry 88

China Women Fashion Pearl Wedding Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

In China, women had different kinds of clothes in ancient times. Those clothes changed with the revolution of dynasties. For examples, in the 1920s, the Cheongsam was fashionable among socialites and upperclass women;[1] during the 1960s, very austere clothes styles were prevalent; today, a wide variety of fashions are worn. Different provinces and regions of China also have different clothing styles.

In Qin and Han Dynasty, women usually wore loose clothes with long large sleeves. Under the long skirt was a pair of high-heeled clogs with some embroidery on them. There was usually a scarf called Jinguo(巾帼) wrapped on the arm of a noble woman while ordinary or poor women had no decoration on their arms. As 

time passed by, the coat tended to be shorter and the skirt became longer. Noble women even needed maids’ help to lift up the skirts to avoid the skirts being stained by the ground. In Wei and Jin Dynasty, clothes of the Han were greatly influenced by the Hu.[citation needed]Advantages of Hu's clothes were absorbed in the Han’s. Women usually wore waist-length coats and full-length skirts, and wrapped belts on their waists.

In Sui and Tang Dynasty, women’s clothes had the trend to be more open. Small-sleeves coats usually made of yarn, still long skirts, wide and long scarves were what they often wore. They could bare the part of body above their chests. This sort of cloth could show the beauty of women better. Another kind of clothes popular that time was something with big sleeves, short breasted shirts and long light skirts. They were used when women were walking in the garden, picking flowers, playing with their pets etc.[citation needed]

Chile Women Pearl Fashion Wedding Jewelry 87

Chile Women Pearl Fashion Wedding Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

Extended-family life has occupied an important place in Chilean society. Although couples are expected to set up their own households, they remain in close contact with the members of their larger families. Children generally get to know their cousins well, as much adult leisure time, generally on weekends and holidays, is spent in the company of relatives. It is also common to find children living for extended periods of time for educational or other reasons in households headed by relatives, sometimes even cousins of their parents. These extended-family ties provide a network of support in times of nuclear family crises. It is also common for close friendships among adults to lead to links that are family-like. For example, children often refer to their parents' friends as "uncle" or "aunt."

Traditional definitions of gender roles have broken down considerably as women have won access to more education and have entered the labor force in larger numbers. By 1990 about half the students in the nation's primary and secondary schools were female; the proportion of women was lower, about 44 percent of the total enrollment in all forms of higher education. The University of Chile graduated Latin America's first female lawyers and physicians in the 1880s. However, women made faster progress in traditionally female professions than in other professions. Thus, by 1910 there were 3,980 women teachers, but there were only seven physicians, ten dentists, and three lawyers. By the 1930s, female enrollments reached significant numbers in these fields. The University of Chile in 1932 had 124 female students enrolled in law (17 percent of the total), ninety-six in medicine (9.5 percent), and 108 in dentistry (38 percent),

Chad Women Fashion Pearl Jewelry 86

Chad Women Fashion Pearl Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

The name Chad is derived the from designation of the great Lake Chad (originally called Kuri) by the sixteenth century author and imam Ibn Fortu. Chad is somewhat similar to Sudan in that it has a northern part inhabited by an Islamic (and partly Arabic-speaking) population of pastoralist semidesert peoples, and a southern part of Christians and traditional religious people, engaged in mixed agriculture, crafts, and trade. These two parts each comprise about half of the population. Postcolonial Chad has, like Sudan, been marked by deep regional-ethnic divisions and a violent history of struggle for power among the various elites that have alternative visions of the state and their place 

within it. Armed rebellions and years of protracted and destructive civil war, in which the role of Libya was at times notable, have characterized Chad's recent history. Starting in 1993, the armed conflicts subsided and some sort of democratization process was instigated.

Chad is a vast, ethnically diverse African country. It gained independence from France in 1960 after a sixty-year colonial period rule that did not create a meaningful national unity. Within the country's borders one may distinguish several national cultures that are based on the ethnoregional and religious affiliations of the population groups. Many of the cultures can be traced back to a complex precolonial history of competing indigenous states and sultanates.

Central African Republic Pearl Fashion Bridal Jewelry 85

Central African Republic Pearl Fashion Bridal Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan

There are fifteen secondary urban centers of populations with from twenty to thirty thousand inhabitants that consist of villages inhabited by persons with different employment and ethnic identities. The vast majority of residents speak languages belonging to the Ubangian family, the most important of which are Banda and Gbaya, some of whose dialects are mutually unintelligible; Nilo-Saharan languages are spoken near the Chad border, and Bantu languages near the Congo (Brazzaville). Although Muslims have been in the territory since it was first colonized, their numbers have increased in the last two decades. In 1992, there were estimated to be forty thousand Mbororo, or nomadic Fulfulde pastoralists. Although it is forbidden to use 

ethnic names in governmental documents, the average person is very much aware of the mara ("ethnic group") of others, and ethnicity figures highly in daily life and politics. Tribes in the technical sense never existed in this region, although in the east there were two indigenous non-Muslim sultanates.

The official name of the country is the République Centrafricaine (CAR). Previously it had been Oubangui-Chari, one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa, bound by the Ubangi River to the south and the Shari to the north. Before independence, there was no sense of a common culture among the indigenous peoples, who thought of themselves as members of lineages and clans, and as villagers. After colonization, when members of different ethnolinguistic groups came into contact, there developed a sense of being riverine (Sango, Gbanzili, and Ngbaka on the Ubangi River), forest (Mbati and Isungu) or grassland peoples (Gbaya and Banda). There is also the hunting, gathering and patron-dependent culture of the Babinga (pygmies) in the forests of the southwest.

Cayman Islands Women Pearl Wedding Fashion Jewelry 84

Cayman Islands Women Pearl Wedding Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan.

Some historians question whether Columbus was really the first person to set eyes on the Cayman Islands; a full year prior to Columbus' journey, the three islands appeared on the 1502 Cantino map. Moreover, Queen Isabella of Spain authorised four other voyages to the New World in 1499. Aside from these facts, even if Columbus was the first European explorer to set foot in Cayman, at the time of his visit there were as many as a million Carib, Taino and Arawak Indians living in the adjacent coastal areas around the Islands. Archival research suggests that Cayman is a word of Carib-Indian origin (meaning crocodile). The Caribs and Taino were proficient mariners, and they were known to make ocean journeys in canoes up to 80ft in length. In Jamaica, thousands of Taino Indians were living just up wind and up current from Cayman, so it is probable that the Taino were among Cayman's initial visitors.

Early Cayman History - 1503 to 1670

Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Cayman Islands. The explorer was on his fourth voyage of discovery when his ships, the Santiago de Palos and the Capitana, sailed past Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. The date was the 10th of May 1503, and his son Ferdinand noted in his journal, "We were in sight of two small low islands filled with tortoises, as was the sea all about." However, Columbus named the islands Las Torgugas after the large number of sea turtles he saw. Columbus and his men didn't stop. Worm-eaten and leaking badly, their ships laboured on until they had to be beached and eventually abandoned in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica.

In 1586, Sir Frances Drake and a fleet of 23 ships stopped in Grand Cayman for two days and recorded that the island was not inhabited but that there were numerous crocodiles, alligators, iguanas and turtles.

Cape Verde Wedding Gold Girl Pearl Fashion Jewelry 83

Cape Verde Wedding Gold Girl Pearl Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan

The Cape Verde Islands were uninhabited until the Portuguese first landed in 1460. They settled in an area of Santiago which they called Ribeira Grande and which they used as a slave-trade post between Africa and the New World. Some Africans stayed on the island and worked as slaves on the latifundas, or plantations, there. Ribeira Grande experienced several pirate attacks, and was abandoned after a French assault in 1712. After 1876, with the decline of slave trade, the islands lost much of their economic value to the Portuguese. The effects of drought and famine were compounded by poor administration and government corruption. Cape Verde regained some wealth in the late nineteenth century due to its convenient location on major trade routes 

between Europe, South America, and Africa and to the opening of a coal and submarine cable station in the port city of Mindelo. This prosperity again declined after World War I, however, and the country experienced several devastating famines. It was not until after the second world war that relative prosperity began to return.

In 1951, the Portuguese changed Cape Verde's status from colony to overseas province and in 1961, granted full Portuguese citizenship to all Cape Verdeans. A war of independence was fought from 1974 to 1975 in Guinea-Bissau, another Portuguese colony on the mainland also seeking autonomy. The islands became an independent republic in 1975.

National Identity. Cape Verdean culture is a unique mixture of European and African elements. National identity is rather fragmented, mainly as a result of the geographical division of the islands. The northern, or barlavento islands, tend to identify more with the Portuguese colonizers, whereas the

Canada Women Party Pearl Stylish Fashion Jewelry 82

Canada Women Party Pearl Stylish Fashion Jewelry.

By Aamir Mannan 

In the 1660s the French government sent about 850 young women (single or widowed) called King's Daughters ("filles du roi"). They quickly found husbands among the predominantly male settlers, as well as a new life for themselves. They came mostly from poor families in the Paris area, Normandy and the central-western regions of France. A handful were ex-prostitutes, but only one is known to have practiced that trade in Canada.[2] As farm wives with very good nutrition and high birth rates they played a major role in establishing family life and enabling rapid demographic growth. They had about 30% more children than comparable women who remained in France. Landry says, "Canadians had an exceptional diet for their time. This was due to the natural abundance of meat, fish, and pure water; the good food conservation conditions during the winter; and an adequate wheat supply in most years."[3][4] The American politician Hillary Clinton is a 

descendant of one of them.[citation needed]

Besides household duties, some women participated in the fur trade, the major source of cash in New France. They worked at home alongside their husbands or fathers as merchants, clerks and provisioners. Some were widowed, and took over their husbands' roles. A handful were active entrepreneurs in their own right.[5]

In the early 19th century down to the 1950s upper-class Anglos dominated high society in Montreal, and their women constructed and managed their identity and social position through central events in the social life, such as the coming out of debutantes. The elite young women were trained in intelligent philanthropy and civic responsibility, especially through the Junior Leagues. They seldom connected with the reform impulses of the middle class women, and for and were paternalistic in their views of the needs of working-class women.[6]