Saree Dreams

How many of you remember 2005 attempts by Satya Paul to fuse eastern and western by calling its collection “Seeta meets Madonna”.

Sounds a little blasphemous, doesn’t it. If India was less tolerant country, all of his designs would have been burned.

But we Indians have a better way of dealing with these issues. The best way to punish a designer is not to burn his creations, but to ignore them.

And I guess Satya Paul (Puneed Nanda) has been punished enough for this.

This golden net piece came from the same collection:

remove the headdress and its not too shabby.

From circa 2005.

This is embarrassing. These designs look pretty on open sarees, but depending on a person, depending on their personal method of draping a saree, you never know where the central part of the geometric design will park itself. Do you really want your erogenous zones marked with a bulls eye?

Even the idea of just having a large design on a pallu is fraught with potential embarrassments.

If it was a dress or even a lehnga, one has full control of how to place the large geometrical pieces on the design, but with saree you don’t have that luxury.

The only positively notable thing about this saree is that it is a “Ma-beti” saree ( I hate that nomenclature); it is a twin sister saree, with two blouses that connote different mood.

May be I shouldn’t post this, this is a slightly dated design. It gives your tailor some creativity license and good one can do wonders. My issue with these kinds of designs are that no matter how hard one tries, and no matter how talented your tailor is, the strips never come out perfect and as you see in the picture above, get creases which don’t particularly look elegant. I prefer string tied designs because slight imperfections make it look natural.

Your mileage may vary.

Like this saree a lot; reminds me of a black peacock from a close up and a starry night from far away.

The designer who said “you can never go wrong with black”, probably wasn’t desi; because for an Indian women, black can go wrong at times. But in this case, it works!

I don’t think blue blouse will work here; but a little more blue in the blouse probably would make it more attractive.

Not bad for $100.

From Libas Designs

Let’s just say that saree looks a little top heavy to me; and not in a good way!

I think it is the tucking-in the saree at the shoulders that is changing the proportion and adding fluff; the posture of the lady is accentuating it too!