Bolivian designer Veronica Diaz holds a piece at her atelier while a model looks on, in La Paz
Bolivian designer Veronica Diaz (R) holds a piece at her atelier while a model looks on, in La Paz, March 18, 2007. Bolivia's indigenous women have rediscovered pride in their traditional layer skirts and bowler hats, making them hip fashion items under the country's first Indian president, Evo Morales. The clothes, long denigrated, are suddenly cool in South America's poorest country as models strut down catwalks in glamorized designer versions of the voluminous pollera (poh-YER-ah) skirts once considered peasant garb. Picture taken in March 18, 2007. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA)