Portret van een jonge vrouw, gekleed in sari en behangen met sieraden ca. You can actually wear a sari without a blouse and a petticoat The sari was worn without a blouse and petticoat before the British Raj.
The result? Even today, most people wear the sari with a blouse and petticoat. But none of the regional sari drapes actually require a petticoat, and many can be worn without a blouse. According to the Textile Ministry Annual Report , current estimates put the number of craftspeople employed by the industry at 11 million.
Especially in cities, more and more people are moving towards garments that are perceived to be easier to wear, including pants, shirts and the salwar kameez , with the sari reserved for special occasions. However, many contemporary designers in India are experimenting with the sari. Saris are sentimental Saris often evoke a feeling of nostalgia and memory, associating certain saris with particular moments or events, or with the memory of your grandmother, for example.
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Banerjee says that the idea of the sari as "restricting movement" is debunked by the millions of working women who are construction workers and farmers. However, Jaseena Backer, of the Facebook group Saree in Style , says that many urban women have a strong belief that saris could be restrictive and cumbersome to wear.
I feel that it wouldn't be so comfortable to move around [in a sari]," she says. Despite these nuances, in recent years, designers, artists and influencers have been challenging the traditional feminine ideals attached to the garment. With innovative styles introduced by young south Asian women, the sari is making a comeback as everyday clothing.
Designers and stylists are moving away from conventional sari draping; they wrap it around jeans instead of the petticoat, and wear it over a t-shirt instead of the tailored blouse. Indian brands like The Saree Sneakers popularise the idea of pairing sneakers with saris, while in Sri Lanka, designer brand Urban Drape specialises in saris with crop tops. Banerjee says that these recent innovations, especially with blouses, make the sari more popular and every day. This hassle was one of the main reasons women gave up saris.
But changing its accessories makes it easier to adopt it and wear it on a daily basis. Aiza Hussain, 24, owner of the Pakistani brand The Saari Girl , is one of those younger people embracing the sari. During the dictatorship of Zia ul Haque , saris were banned in most spaces in Pakistan. Some celebrities stood out in resistance to these campaigns, such as the singer Iqbal Bano, who sang Faiz Ahmed Faiz's famous Urdu poem Hum Dekhenge at Alhamra Arts Council in clad in a black sari.
Hussain tells BBC Culture: "Narratives around saris embedded in religion, marital status, colour and body shape exist till this day, and this is what we are trying to combat. We want to normalise saris. After all, these six yards of loose cloth can be for anyone and everyone. In Pakistan, Hussain is seeing change. While her mother's generation only wore saris for formal events like weddings, she says many young women now are purchasing them for daily wear.
When that happens, you know there is a growing market for them. Sari designer Adila Murtaza of Shahkaar by Adila agrees. While she says saris were mostly limited to married women in the past, it was also an heirloom garment.
They wear them casually and style them in innovative ways — with belts, blazers, pants and sneakers. For people who don't know how to tie a sari, there are ready-to-wear stitched options.
Murtaza notices that some sari purists scoff at these non-traditional ways, but she loves seeing people having fun with a piece of fabric and expressing their authentic self. For plus-size Pakistani fashion bloggers, sari is a fashion statement now," she says. Social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram have helped promote to these designers' work, and to popularise the idea that women can do anything while wearing a sari.
When dancer Eshna Kutty, 24, posted her sareeflow video , spinning a hula hoop to the Bollywood song, Genda Phool, it went viral; the video received more than two million views. Kutty draped her mother's sari over jeans and a sports bra while wearing sneakers.
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