Art of Saree
As we all know India is always filled with its traditional value, customs and thoughts when it comes In india, saree are worn by women as it is one of the traditional outfits. It is said there is no attire is as simple yet attractive as saree.
Nowadays saree has become a fashion trend around the world which consists different bright colours and design as it was worn for wedding or other event and there are huge ranges of saree are available. In the past women used to wear sarees with an coated sleeve blouse with no pattern and style but the trend has change.
On May 6th , we went to Little India in Penang to do our culture assignment for travel and writing photography subject as we choose indian clothing which is saree. At first it was quite hard for us to find a shop that are not busy with customer because the day we went there is on Sunday so there are a lot of people at Little India. Every shop we go are busy with customer.
The other problem we face when we were there is not only that, the language barrier is also a problem because most of the worker that work there have a problem in speaking English and malay. So even though we found a shop that have less customer, we still can not start our assignment as the worker there can not understand English and Malay.
Although we were in Penang, it was not easy for us to find Malay or English speaking shop clerk until we found Pn Noriah(with hijabs). An employee of Rao Saree Centre. She explain a lot about saree to us as she already work at that shop for 8 years. Before Puan Noriah talk to us more in detail about saree, she get us to know about the fabric that use to make saree. The type of saree that have in the shop include the modern type is georgette, chiffon, satin, crepe and cotton.
Pn Noriah(with hijabs), an employee of Rao Saree Centre.
Next, we would like to tell you about how to use the saree that we learned during our assignment about this culture. For those who never wear a saree or don’t know how to put on saree, they might assume that wear saree is to complicated and that’s what we thought until I was taught how to use it and how to wear it. Then we know that it is very easy guys! So girls out there you must try it. Here some steps that we learn about how to wear saree. So this is a few steps to wear a saree:
Step 1:
Start from the plain( non-pallu) end, and tuck in the fag end just near the belly button. Continue to swaddle from the left side, and complete the round from behind till you reach the point.
Step 2:
Yank the saree to the front and begin the pleats roughly about size of the finger stretch from fare finger to the thumb .
Step 3:
Stow the pleats into the skirt and secure with a safety pin towards the left side of the waist.
Step 4:
Bring the pallu towards the left side of your shoulder, from under the right arm and pin it on the left shoulder.
Step 5:
Of course put your makeup on, accessories and do you hair.
The worker is helping Reen with her saree
So these are a few steps to wear a saree that can make you look beautiful when you wear that. Its so easy right? It easy to wear it so you girls out there can try it by yourself at home. For daily wear, we would recommend that you pleat up your pallu and secure with a safety pin and just like that, you don’t just know how to wear a saree but are also ready to enjoy five yard of elegent allure.
Reen in cotton saree
Ika in the same saree
Now , we want to tell you guys about what should wear to a funeral in India. From what I watched from Bollywood film or movie, when someone died all the family members wearing in white especially the Indian women wear a white saree. Now we know why they wear a white saree for woman. According to several Hindu traditions, white is generally a colour of mourning a Hindu is not without reason or significance. Besides, white symbolizes purity and is used to show respect.
Rack that full with white saree
The vast majority will want you to wear white so you likely will safe to do so regardless. Here are the reasons why Hindu women or widows wear a white saree for funeral. First reason is traditionally if a wife loses her husband she is expected to give up all claims to all forms of worldly pleasures and happiness. Another reason why widows wear only white is that the colour basically as a symbolism of infertility, asexuality, asceticism and death. So thereby, restricting the attire to white seems like a conscious effort to create a definite distinction of certain people from major part of the society.
Furthermore, the most common practice which is even upheld today is that when a widow dons white she has willfully taken upon abstinence for life. Once a women is widowed, she is forbidden from marrying or taking a lover. Some even associate wearing white as a way to demarcate a widow as an “untouchable” for any another man and wearing white is a clear indication for the same.
So that it our story about Indian clothes culture which we can tell you guys. That’s just the story of the culture we choose to make an assignment. Only here we can tell about our experience in the place and learn a lot about traditional clothes is India and so on. We hope readers are happy with our story we have and hopefully it will be beneficial to all. Thank you for spending your time to read our blog.
Reen and Ika in front of Rao Saree Centre shop
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