Clothing in
India varies from region to region depending on the ethnicity, geography, climate
and cultural traditions of the people of that region.
In urban
areas, western clothing is common and uniformly worn by people of all state.
Traditional
Indian clothing for women are saris or the salwar kameez and also ghagra cholis. For men traditional
clothes are the dhoti, lungi or kurta.
In southern
India the men wear long white sheets of clothes called dhoti in north Indian
languages and vesti in Tamil.
A little
girls wear a pavadai which is also known as ghagra choli in North India. A
pavadai or ghagra choli is a long skirt worn under a blouse.
A dhoti or
lungi, which is a loose skirt or shorts type wrap for men, is common in rural
areas and in high heat and most of the time it is worn alone, without a shirt.
In urban areas men often wear long, buttoned shirts and loose pants called
sherwani or kurta pajamas.
Salwar
kameez, a pant and long tailed or to the knees skirt outfit made of light
weight fabric is most common for women in more urban areas.
Young ladies and women throughout India wear
traditional saris made of cotton, silk or factory blends that are wrapped on
the body in many ways. This is draped over a simple or fancy blouse.
The choli or
the woman’s blouse is belived to have came into existence with various European
colonial powers that once occupied a major portion of Indian subcontinent. The
British did influence women’s clothing to a great extent. Indian high society ladies
started wearing long sleeved blouses with frills, very similar to the Victorian
upper garment during the late 19th and early 20th
centuries.
Western
clothing continues to increase in popularity in city centers through the
traditional blond colours and embroidery of classic Indian attire influence
never designs. Indian style that crossed culture and is a classic in Eastern and
Western countries is the Nehru jacket a well trailored high-collared, button down
style named after Jawaharlal Nehru, a former prime minister of India. For both
men and women’s wear it’s called Nehru Jackets.
Indo-western
clothing is the fusion of western and subcontinental fashion chudidar, Dupatta,
Kurtha, Sherwani are among other clothes.
Traditional
Indian clothing has came into prominence once again, well it we notice that the
trends in fashion industry we will realize that modern fashion has aped the
styling and designing of the costumes. This morden fashion is just because of
royals, splendor and luxury. The creative fashion designers of Today are in a
looking out for ethic designs that takes us close to our cultural roots and
remind us of the glorious past. Has days goes on fashion and tradition of India
keeps changing according to the trend and peoples taste. It lacks in knowledge
of traditional dressings of India in the new generation. But now a day’s most
of the people prefer for traditional costumes during the cultural vocations,
this shows that Indian tradition costume as lot of importance and few lover who
would like to wear and look in a desi look.