The steriotypical attire of Guaraní women in Bolivia is a colorful but shapeless sack, saftey-pinned together at the shoulders, as seen in some of the earlier black and white pictures. (The design was probably imposed on them by early missionaries with more sense of propriety than imagination.) This is still the custom in many Guaraní areas, but outside the missions themselves it was never traditional in the Cañón del Ingre.

Doña Anastacia is now the only woman in Imi who still wears the dress that was every Ingre woman's fashion statement a century ago (okay: the sweatshirt is her grudging nod to the 21st century). She claims her reluctance to smile is also traditional, that Guaraní women were supposed to be serious.