Ponchos: Being Neo-hippy and Romantic Thanks to the Return of Poncho

Fashion greets with joy the return of Poncho; an amazing and colourful piece of clothes that everyone needs in their winter wardrobe.
At the end of the 60s, poncho, along with huge skirts decorated in flowers and bell-bottoms, became the typical piece of garments of those young people who were fighting for universal peace and love and sang "Make love, not the war" in the manifestations against the system.
If you really want to dive in the complete atmosphere of those years, I suggest you to watch the film "Across the Universe" by Julie Taymor. It's a beautiful musical that will make you dream thanks to more than thirty songs by The Beatles interpreted by great singers of our days such as Bono and Joe Cocker.

There are hundreds of different types of Ponchos to satisfy every single taste, from the super chic to the new hippy; Benetton suggests some items with long fringe and vivid colours such us pink, purple and green; Replay is more classic and makes its poncho with black and grey colours; Les Copains proposes a poncho in tartan wool with bright colours like yellow and orange; Louis Vuitton personalizes its poncho with its logo and transforms it in a very elegant item; Moncler offers a super-techno poncho made of black nylon with white geometrical pattern; Burberry suggests a pink poncho with brown and grey geometrical patterns, Chanel proposes very elegant poncho in blue and black.

United States are going nuts for Latin American stylists who propose original ponchos to match even with elegant clothes.
Adriana Santacruz offers her poncho in natural colours to wear with a white shirt or tied with a belt. Actresses like Jennifer Lopez and Drew Barrymore wear Carolina Herrera super-coloured ponchos.

On line, we found a couple of links to buy original and hand-crafted ponchos directly from internet, with credit card payment. La Mamita sells only handmade ponchos in alpaca wool, like the original ones from the Ande. Alpaca belongs to the family of llama and it is famous for its soft and warm wool perfect to face cold winters.
This year fashion shows beautiful items from dark green to the purple and from white to light blu.

Western films cinema's icon Clint Eastwood wears his dusty brown poncho in one of the mythic scenes in the history of cinema in the famous film For a Fist of Dollars by Sergio Leone.
Recenlty, Betty, main character of the TV series Ugly Betty, wears a super colourful red poncho with 'Guadalajara' written on it.

Finally, if you really want to learn by yourselves how to create your own poncho, there are a lot of workshop teaching how to make colourful woollen items. The so called 'Knit Cafè' teaches this ancient and almost lost art that - it's been scientifically proved - relaxes nerves and souls.

But if you want to buy exclusive ponchos created by Italian fashion designers and manufactured by the best Peruvian craftsmen, I suggest the web site La Mamita.  You will find a perfect combination of an ancient ethnic tradition with a young and cool style.