Clothes in India Discover the country through clothes
Content: •The Origins •The Saree •The Churidar •The Pattu Pavadai •The Lehenga •The Bindi •The Kolusu •The accessories
•The Kaylhi •The vesti and the Dothi •The Sherwani •The Dastar •The symbolism of colours
The origins
The Origins of the garment The various Indian clothes, come from differences of ethnic origin, the climate or still the cultural traditions of the various peoples. The Indian clothing fashion, change from a region to an other, and it can even have there differences of a village in an other or even from a caste to the other one. For example : the Indian women wear white clothes for the funerals, while the European women gets married in white. Most of the Indian clothes, are traditional clothes as for example the saree. The peculiarity of the Indian clothes is that to make them, we don't need that many stitchs. SEE COLOR CODE page 3
The Saree
What varies between the various regions, it is not the tissue, but it's the way of putting it, of adjusting it ‌ The saree goes on one underskirt, and a blouse, called Choli leaving the stomach naked, then covered by the saree. The color, the way of putting it can reflect the status, the occupations, the age, the situation of the women
The saree exists since approximately 100 before JC. Millions of women wear it, which are old enough to get married, or older. there is no age, although the little girls will not wear sarees. The saree is in the end only a long fabric band of approximately 10m long, and 1m20 wide.
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Churidar
It is a cloth looking like strongly Salwar Kameez, but the pants are much more tightened (it looks like the legging, for europeens.) it is worn with a much longer tunic. This clothe is more worn by the Hindu women. 6
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Pattu Pavadai Pattu Pavada, also conscript Langa Voni is a traditional dress of the South of India. This dress is particularly worn by the girls, before their puberty but especially for special occasions as the lehanga. We call it familiarly half a saree. it consists of a skirt atached in the size (Langa), and the Voni or Davani, a long fabric about 2m long. Voni is draped on a discovering blouse (Choli.) This garment corresponds to a saree, but for the youngest.
Indeed he allows to make more movements, it make it more easy to move your legs. Let us pass then in accessories very present in the Indian culture, such as earrings, necklaces, or bracelets wearing each of the specific names. 8
Lehenga This garment worn by the women, can have several naming as ravika (in telegu.) all the Indian women do not wear the lehanga, it is especially in Gujarat, Rajastan, Tamil Nadu and Kerrala ‌ The lehanga, consists of one long skirt, and of a kind of very tight top, discovering the stomach (Choli).
It is often worn for special occasions, as marriages, or parties..
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Bindi The bindi is the symbol of India, it is diverted by "bindu", meaning "drop". Symbolically, it represents the third eye of a person, it also represents the consciousness, the good fortune and party. We can think that the bindi is only an esthetic garment, but in fact it is also a religious symbol. The bindi being red, it is supposed brought prosperity, enjoyment to the family. The bindi can be of different way, it can be a red point, or a small graceful flame, or a bigger and more round point.. But why on the forehead ? The bindi is concerned the forehead, because this location between eyebrows corresponds to the sixth chacra, place commanding the meditation. The bindi is also very cultural, and involved in everyday Indian life. For example, when a woman loses her husband she has to stop at once wearing the bindi to indicate that she became a widow. The meaning, and the origins of the bindi, remain all the same rather complex and difficult has to explain.
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Kolusu
The kolusu is a chain that we put to our feets.
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Accessories
Indian bangles and accessories are very feminine
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Kaylhi
Having explained the women's fashion, let us pass to the men This is the everyday life men’s wear
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Vesti and Dhoti It is the fabric of 4m, rolled up around the waist, then that we pass between legs to knot(tie) it then. it is especially worn in the North of India, for the marriages, with a kurta which is a long shirt.
It is exactly the equivalent of Doti, but in the South of India, particularly worn in Tamil Nadu. it is especially worn in the marriages, or by the big politicians. 19
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Sherwani Sherwani is a long shirt or a coat arriving up to knees, which goes from time to time with a pants Churidar (the same that the woman) who is rather wide, and tightened in ankles.
This dress, is very elegant, and traditionally it is the clothe of the bridegroom accompanied with a turban 21
Dastar
The dastar is not a garment but a turban worn by the Sikhs (the sykhism is a monotheist religion based in the North of India.) Dastar is most of the time of orange color, because in India it is a color partner of courage, sacrifice.
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The symbolism of colors in India Let's start by the white: It is the color of bramhanes, or priests but it is also the color of death. The green: it was previously the color of the castes of the traders, but today it is surout a sign of membership in the Muslim religion. In certain regions of India the green is also used for the marriage. The blue was previously the color of the castes of craftsmen, farmers ‌ The black is a very rare color in India, sit is of bad fortune-teller. The red is the color of the warriors. It is now a color of good expectation, supposed brought the prosperity. The sarees of the brides are red most of the time. And finally the yellow, is a religious color. In certain regions of India, he aims to be that the mother wears of the yellow 7 days after the birth of her child. In India, there are numerous different regions, there is a big difference between the North and the South. There are 29 different states, we are going to quote only the most known: Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, The Andra Pradesh, Gujarat, Telangana, Utar Pradesh, The Punjab, Nagaland... Clothes are especially different not by regions but by locality. There is rather big differences, between the South India and North India. In both parts of India, Indians are very traditional in their clothes. Clothes are practically similar, has a share that they are some time of different colors, either texture different, or still are worn for various opportunities. We can say that clothes in India have especially traditional, esthetic and a some cultural values 23