Friday, May 19, 2017

Let's talk about the saree










It is no secret that I love hand-crafted clothes in natural fabrics preferably sourced ethically. What is also no secret is my love for traditional Indian clothing worn in ways that feel good to me. Sometimes that means wearing long kurtas featuring high slits with denim shorts, sometimes it means wearing gaghras with sweatshirts or sometimes it means wearing a kediyu (that pre-pubescent girls from the Bharvad tribe in Gujarat wear) with a lovely hand-loomed cotton gamchaa saree wrapped around a denim mini.

I literally cannot say or write enough about my love for a simple cotton saree and would pick cottons over most other (natural fabric) sarees any day of the week. I wear them everywhere from work to the pub while travelling or hiking or just chilling at home. In fact I am so obsessed with sarees and documenting saree wearing feminists that I have even started a whole new blog just focussed on sarees. These photos were taken for a post on that blog but the saree and the kediyu are so pretty that we got a lot of good pictures and I decided to use some of them here. If you are curious about the various aspect of this particular outfit or want to know about sarees, are a newbie trying to incorporate more sarees into your daily wear or just someone that likes to look at colourful photos taken in Sydney and elsewhere please free to check us out on Pleats N Pallu blog or instagram.






2 comments:

ThriftyParka said...

Great post! I immediately checked out your saree blog...thank you for the wonderful information about this magical 6 yards of fabric.

I love the green water-nymph saree but the waterfall.

My fav pic, hands down, was the one with you nochalantly seated in ripped jeans. Very thought-provoking and challenging photograph.

Thank you

happy thrifting ;)

Jenna Opsahl said...

You are so gorgeous and I love this gingham! So exciting about your new blog. Your photos are always so dreamy. I just love your style :)

xx
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