Saree Dreams

This might seem like a Satya Paul saree, but it isn’t.

India is always excited about cricket and being Indian, the designer duo Anjana Seth and Shashi Kant have beautifully portrayed their love for cricket in their creation. The blue saree has many motifs related with cricket on it. The interesting pallu of the saree contains the summary of a cricket match.

I have talked about my disappointment with the cricket cheerleader “sarees”, like this one by Orissa Cricket

I think they could have done a lot better; keeping the ethnic lines and yet making it modern and fluid and suitable for dancing.

On Wednesdays, we let the saree do all the talking and this one tells you a very rich story.

On wednesdays, we let the saree do all the talking.

Love the jeweled blouse design! Goes well with the saree.

If you think that I am going to make a peachy pun, you are mistaken.

I LOVE this picture. Even if I didn’t know the story behind it, I’d guess from the attitude and confidence that this pink saree clad woman is showing.

The women, who operate in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, wear pink as a kind of makeshift uniform - and their ranks have swelled to several hundred strong.

They arm themselves with lathi - traditional sticks - which they have used to beat men who have abandoned or abused their wives and policemen who have refused to register claims of rape.

Aarti Devi, 25, says: “On my own I have no rights but together, as the Gulabi Gang, we have power.

“When I go to fetch water, the upper-caste people beat me, saying I shouldn’t be drinking the same water as them. But because we’re a gang, they’re scared of us and will leave us alone.

I FULLY support women’s rights, but not sure if I can fully support vigilantis.

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Thanks but no thanks. I don’t particularly think that the feather trimming on the saree looks any good!

Sometimes I have thought about fur trimming for a saree, but I don’t think I’d trim it the way it is done here.

Anyway, it was worth trying and now we know that it doesn’t look good, so lets move on.

I meant to spend more time showcasing sarees from the movie Rang Rasiya.

The costumes were designed by Niharika Khan and I thought she did an exceptional job of recreating period costumes.

Above two sarees are a perfect examples where she tried to recreate not just the colors but the fabrics and texture of the paintings of Raja Ravi Verma.

His original paintings sell for millions and even the copies of his paintings demand a pretty penny. If the art market hadn’t frozen because of the financial crisis, we would have seen his work reach stratospheric prices.