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Bakya. Bakyâ for sale. The Bakyâ or wooden clogs [1] were once the most commonly used footwear in the Philippines before the introduction of rubber sandals. This footwear is made from local light wood like santol and laniti. It is cut to the desired foot size before being shaven until smooth. The side of the bakyâ is thick enough to be ...
A Goldilocks Bakeshop branch (2009) On May 15, 1966, Chinese Filipino sisters, Milagros Leelin Yee and Clarita Leelin Go, and their sister-in-law Doris Wilson Leelin, opened the first Goldilocks store on a 70-square-meter (750 sq ft) space on the ground floor of a three-story building along Pasong Tamo Street in Makati and started with only 10 employees.
T'nalak. Tnalak (also spelled tenalak ), is a weaving tradition of the Tboli people of South Cotabato, Philippines. [ 1] T'nalak cloth is woven exclusively by women who have received the designs for the weave in their dreams, which they believe are a gift from Fu Dalu, the T'boli Goddess of abacá. [ 1]
An ukay-ukay ( Tagalog pronunciation: [ˌʔuːkaɪ.ˈʔuːkaɪ] oo-ky-OO-ky ), or wagwagan (Ilocano pronunciation|wɐgˈwaːgɐn}} wəg-WAH-gən) is a Philippine store where a mix of secondhand and surplus items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a more affordable price. Items commonly sold at ukay-ukay's are ...
Sari-sari store. A sari-sari store, anglicized as neighborhood sundry store, [ 1] is a convenience store found in the Philippines. The word sari-sari is Tagalog meaning "variety" or "sundry". Such stores occupy an important economic and social location in a Filipino community and are ubiquitous in neighborhoods and along streets.
Baro't saya. La Bulaqueña, an 1895 painting by Juan Luna of an upper class woman from Bulacan wearing a traje de mestiza. The painting is sometimes referred to as the " María Clara " due to the woman's dress. The baro’t saya or baro at saya (literally "blouse and skirt") is a traditional dress ensemble worn by women in the Philippines.
Pornographic materials first arrived in the Philippines in 1946, in the form of pornographic magazines imported from the United States. [2] During the 1960s, magazines for women in the Philippines featured literary articles featuring topics on contraception, sexual health, marriage, erotica and sexual liberation with the purpose of improving marital relationship, and not as an impediment or ...
The Tboli people[ 2] ( IPA: ['tʔbɔli]) are an Austronesian indigenous peoples of South Cotabato in southern Mindanao in the Philippines. Tbolis currently reside on the mountain slopes on either side of the upper Alah Valley and the coastal area of Maitum, Maasim and Kiamba in the province of Sarangani. In former times, the Tbolis also resided ...