18 Oct 2010
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Your marriage date is fixed and you have started shopping for your marriage. Great. Wedding is a special occasion and as a prospective bride, you have all the right to shop to your heart’s content. Well, shopping to your heart’s content is good but shopping should be planned properly. Planning should be
impeccable, when it is about your wedding saree and your wedding jewelry.
It is your marriage and you are the center of attraction on that day. Therefore, your saree should be elegant and bright. The color of your saree should suit your skin complexion. Whether you have fair skin
or not is not the cause of concern. You just need to select a saree shop that offers a
wide range of sarees for wedding. Once you select a saree shop, you just need to look into their collection and find the one, which you find suitable for the day.
Theme marriage has become quite popular these days. If you are also planning a theme marriage, it is very important for you to match the color and design of your saree with the theme of the occasion. Wedding is a special occasion. Therefore, you should not make any kind of compromise with the quality or design of the saree. If you make compromise for money, you might not be able to get the best saree for the day. To get the best effect of the designer saree that you select for your wedding, you should match your jewelries with it. Before
purchasing a wedding saree, you should ensure that it is perfect for the day. Therefore, it is always suggested to purchase wedding saree in advance.
However again
wedding sarees differ in appearance and outlook with different cultures spread over India, each having their own customs and rituals to furnish wedding ceremonies. Bengali wedding ceremonies and Central Eastern cultures of India generally opt for a bright red ornamented and heavily embroidered. These are referred to as Benarasi Sarees. Elsewhere in the hills of North East and their tribes, the wedding saree lies assorted from Assam Silk “Mekhla”, predominantly in Assam, to silken “dokhna” and “dakmanda” of Boro and Garo tribes. Traditionally their sarees are not full body but consist of a lower wrap covering the legs and upper and upper wrap or a shawl.The “Moirangfee” saree is also selected as the wedding attire for certain North East Indian tribes. It bears a similarity in texture to the Bengali “jamdani” or “Nepali dhakai cloth”. Sarees with Red borders having dark blue or white backgrounds are the common colors for wedding sarees of this region.
Source: avik
15 Oct 2010
On: 5463
The saree is the traditional item of clothing worn by Indian women for a long time and they have been worn in their current form for hundreds of years. In the history of Indian clothing, the saree is traced back to the Indus Valley Civilization, which flourished during 2800-1800 BCE around the western part of the Indian subcontinent. We have discussed the origin and history of the saree earlier in details in prior sections of our website. However with the onset of the festive season in India marking not only the harvest of golden grains in paddy fields, sarees are no longer restricted to just a clothing for the female. It is also symbolic of the many ritualistic activities surrounding the auspicious festivities and marking the onset of the same.
For those of you who are new to the world of sarees and keen to acquire some information on the advent of sarees and its traditional outlook, it is elongated unstitch cloth ranging from four to nine meter in length. Different part of the Indian sub continent wear the saree in different style for instance women in the north wear with drape coming from back to front; in the south women wear it with the drape down over the shoulder. In addition, the most common style to be wearing a saree is to wrap around the waist area with one end drop over the shoulder baring the midriff. The saree is accompanied by a blouse and a petticoat. Saree will be made from lightweight traditionally silk or lightweight cotton, however today made from a variety of man-made fabric too.
Different types of saree like wedding saree, traditional saree, contemporary saree and festival saree and so on will be worn depending on the occasion. These sarees greatly raises appearance and perfect look needed for the occasion. Festival sarees are expression of events and festival. Colour and designing of festival sarees are contrived in the way to perfectly match the occasion. Festival sarees are beautifully crafted with cutwork, sequin work, beadwork, mirror work, patchwork, embroidery etc. Bridal saree are available in very attractive colour combination with heavy embroidery all over the saree. For fancy saree these pattern could be woven with gold or silver thread and sometimes with precious stones and pearls. These saree are design to add grace and elegance to one’s personality. India, which is the characteristic birthplace and the geographical location where the saree is widely used, is still markedly different from the rest of the world in celebrating its festivities. The most popular festival, Diwali, is date decided after extensive research on the lunar positions and Hindu astronomical calendar. Although it is the festival of lights and the entire nation is illuminated to a visual feast by lamps, the other ingredient that serves as fest for the eyes in this festival are the lovely traditional sarees and salwar kameez and lehenga cholis in bright colours adorned by women of all ages from eight to eighty. Indeed the nation is resplendent with colour and lights not only by the lamps but also by the most beautiful sarees and traditional salwar kameez and lehenga cholis worn by the women, who are revered and respected as the mother cult and symbol of Indian goddess of wealth who is the ambassador of this occasion, Goddess Laxmi.
Saree is considered the most stylish outfit for Indian women. Indian women folk believe that adoring a saree is an integral part of Indian tradition that symbolizes sophistication in the ethnicity. Women from all over the world have accepted this attire because it not only keeps the grace of women intact but also the beauty of the wearer.
Source: avik
12 Oct 2010
On: 5467
Saree is a typical and ethnic Indian costume worn by ladies and young girls too. It is five to five and half meters in length, draped around the waist along with a with a blouse which has been actually improvised from the waistcoat worn by British ladies during the era of the Raj, the British dominion in pre-independent India. The Blouse worn along with the Saree is actually the contribution of the celebrated and much renowned Tagore family in India
The texture of the sarees varies from coarse handloom to fine “Dhakai Muslin” to pure silk. Besides cotton sarees, which is worn in the tropical climate regions, women also wear synthetic and silk sarees in cooler climate. In the present generation of fashion, Sarees have caught the fancy of the global market. It can be worn in various ways as demonstrated by the womenfolk inhabitants of the different regional areas of India and the surrounding sub-continent. One way of adorning the saree which is extremely popular is the “aanchal”, that is the pallu or the length of cloth which hangs from the shoulder either in the front or wrapped around at the back. This part is called the “aanchal” and has various motifs. The famous “Baluchari Sarees” have the Ramayana and Mahabharata depicted in the “aanchal”. It is fully hand woven with silk threads originally. However presently, the “Zari”, which is the golden thread, is also used. It is a unique representation of its own style and besides the Baluchari sarees, there is also the famous Benarasi sarees
which is quintessential for the wedding trousseau of every Indian woman.
The varieties of sarees are available at different price ranges and can be availed from a paltry hundred rupees to hundreds of thousands rupees. The present gentry of fashion designers and models in the ramps have really put the magic touch of style and elegance and ethnicity in sarees.
In India, a native woman rural roots or urban upbringing can be recognized from her style of draping the saree. Rural women folk generally have a taste for loud colours and coarse material to fit their shoe-stringed budgets. Women from Urban backgrounds prefer lighter shades and finer materials. The elite reserve themselves to the finest of textures and retain the exclusivity of their sarees by procuring custom made designer sarees
at exorbitant rates to suit their tastes. In India, every state showcases its exquisite motifs, colors, textures and gives a very vivid idea of the mood of the occasion for which it is meant to be worn.
Source: avik