TRADITIONAL INDIAN CLOTHING

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 19^th and early 20^th 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.