Hello readers – I’m back. If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been the answer is near Valencia, Spain. We’ve just got back from 2 weeks holiday there. We were really lucky – arrived in time for almost 2 weeks of great weather after the previous week of continuous rain. We had 24 hrs of rain before we set off back to Germany but that’s pretty good going for October in that area apparently.
On one of our trips into Valencia we spotted the traditional costumes of the area on sale in the El Corte Inglés Spain’s largest department store chain. Here are some of the off the peg models. They start at around 700 Euro for a small child and go up into the thousands for an adult.
You can even buy the complete historical underwear models to go with the outfit 
They were also selling the fabric too and offered a made to measure service. The price of the fabric was mind boggling. I first thought it must be pure silk but no this was all man-made fibres.
And yes that does say 625 Euro and it wasn’t the most expensive fabric on offer!
