A fashionable Saree wear of women
Asari or saree is a strip of unstitched cloth, worn by women,
ranging from four to nine yards in length that is draped over the body in
various styles which is native to the Indian
The
sari is usually worn over a petticoat (called lahaṅgā or lehenga in the north; langa,
pavada, or pavadai in the south; chaniyo, parkar, ghaghra,
or ghagaro in the west; and shaya in eastern India), with a
blouse known as a choli or ravika forming the upper garment. The blouse has
short sleeves and a low neck and is usually cropped at the midriff, and as such
is particularly well-suited for wear in the sultry South Asian summers. Cholis
may be backless or of a halter neck style. These are usually more dressy, with
plenty of embellishments such as mirrors or embroidery, and may be worn on special
occasions. Women in the armed forces, when wearing a sari uniform, don a
short-sleeved shirt tucked in at the waist. The sari developed as a garment of
its own in both South and North India at around the same time, and is in
popular culture an epitome of Indian culture. The sari signified the grace of
Indian women adequately displaying the curves at the right places.
In
the history of Indian clothing the sari is traced back to the Indus Valley
Civilisation, which flourished during 2800–1800 BC around the western part of
the Indian subcontinent. The earliest known depiction of the sari in the Indian
subcontinent is the statue of an Indus Valley priest wearing a drape.
Ancient
Tamil poetry, such as the Silappadhikaram and the Sanskrit work, Kadambari
by Banabhatta, describes women in exquisite drapery or sari. The ancient
stone inscription from Gangaikonda Cholapuram in old Tamil scripts has a
reference to hand weaving. In ancient Indian tradition and the Natya Shastra
(an ancient Indian treatise describing ancient dance and costumes), the navel
of the Supreme Being is considered to be the source of life and creativity,
hence the midriff is to be left bare by the sari.
Sculptures
from the Gandhara, Mathura and Gupta schools (1st–6th century AD) show
goddesses and dancers wearing what appears to be a dhoti wrap, in the
"fishtail" version which covers the legs loosely and then flows into
a long, decorative drape in front of the legs. No bodices are shown.
Other
sources say that everyday costume consisted of a dhoti or lungi (sarong),
combined with a breast band called 'Kurpasika' or 'Stanapatta' and occasionally
a wrap called 'Uttariya' that could at times be used to cover the upper body or
head. The two-piece Kerala mundum neryathum (mundu, a dhoti or sarong, neryath,
a shawl, in Malayalam) is a survival of ancient Indian clothing styles. The
one-piece sari is a modern innovation, created by combining the two pieces of
the mundum neryathum.
It
is generally accepted that wrapped sari-like garments for lower body and
sometimes shawls or scarf like garment called 'uttariya' for upper body, have
been worn by Indian women for a long time, and that they have been worn in
their current form for hundreds of years. In ancient couture the lower garment
was called 'nivi' or 'nivi bandha', while the upper body was mostly left bare.
The works of Kalidasa mentions 'Kurpasika' a form of tight fitting breast band
that simply covered the breasts. It was also sometimes referred to as
'Uttarasanga' or 'Stanapatta'.
The
tightly fitted, short blouse worn under a sari is a choli. Choli evolved as a
form of clothing in the 10th century AD, and the first cholis were only front
covering; the back was always bare but covered with end of saris pallu. Bodices
of this type are still common in the state of Rajasthan.
In
South India and especially in Kerala, women from most communities wore only the
sari and exposed the upper part of the body till the middle of the 20th century.[3][4] Poetic references from works like Silappadikaram indicate
that during the Sangam period in ancient Tamil Nadu, a single piece of clothing
served as both lower garment and head covering, leaving the midriff completely
uncovered. Similar styles of the sari
are recorded paintings by Raja Ravi Varma in Kerala. By the mid 19th century,
though, bare breasted styles of the sari faced social revaluation and led to
the Upper cloth controversy in the princely state of Travancore (now part of
the state of Kerala) and the styles declined rapidly within the next half a
century.
In
ancient India, although women wore saris that bared the midriff, the
Dharmasastra writers stated that women should be dressed such that the navel
would never become visible. By which for some time the navel exposure became a
taboo and the navel was concealed.
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December 11, 2017 at 12:20 AM
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