This is a vintage studio photograph from around 1931, featuring a young lady associated with Cavite High School (now Cavite National High School, established in 1902 as the Philippines' first national secondary school). She is wearing a traje de mestiza (or early form of the terno), a traditional Filipino dress with elaborate lace butterfly sleeves and a long skirt—emblematic of early 20th-century Filipino fashion blending indigenous and Western influences. The photo was likely taken by an Escal