Traditional Dress Of Chennai
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THE YOUNG women of Chennai bleed aplomb and address as they airing bottomward the road, biking to their assignment spots or alike jostle anniversary added in awash academy corridors. Their dress faculty is categorical and they are no added to be labelled as accepted in their attire. They are on a par with their counterparts in the added cities. But as we watch them in their trousers, salwars or alike the causal jeans and T-shirts, what strikes one is the absence of the acceptable dress of the adolescent woman of Tamil Nadu — the pavadai thavani.
Most Indian dresses accept captivated their own adjoin the aggression of Western apparel. The sari still charcoal the favourite of the adolescent and the old. Says Sreyessy, an undergraduate in a burghal college, "The sari makes alike the best accustomed woman attending exotic, traditional, able and beautiful." All accede that the sari can be beat to emphasise curves or to adumbrate flab.
["640.2"]The salwar has cut beyond age and chic barriers to become the best accepted dress in India. It is convenient, modest, economical and aloft all, Indian. Among the actual young, it concedes in acceptance alone to jeans and T-shirts. Alike ghagras, shararas and lehenga-cholis accept become accepted as affair wear. So while these dresses accept acquired pan-Indian appeal, why is it that the half-sari seems to be dematerialization altogether?
Just a brace of decades ago, the half-sari besides actuality the acceptable dress, was additionally the best accepted dress of adolescent girls in Tamil Nadu. The pride of a girl's apparel was the pattu-pavadai, beat with a half-sari to bout its border. There was no dress that belonged so alone to the beginning adolescent woman and no woman accomplished her adolescence would abrasion it. The half-sari was a alteration from the pavadai to the sari, from boyhood to womanhood. It able a adolescent babe for the added bulky nine yards, or the added avant-garde six metres.
["627.59"]The half-sari draped over the blouse, with one end tucked into the pavadai, gave a adolescent babe abandon to bound about and at the aforementioned time accomplished her to be added acquainted of herself and her dress. But while the sari charcoal popular, the half-sari has absent to a array of North Indian and Western dresses. Responding to a questionnaire, abounding adolescent girls said they did not own alike one set of this acceptable dress. Alike those who endemic it accepted they rarely wore it. When asked what they anticipation of the half-sari, decidedly abounding adolescent girls were boisterous in accusatory it. Nandini, 18, stated, "To be honest, I feel half-saris accord to a antecedent century. Never in my activity will I abrasion one." Abounding adolescent girls feel that half-saris are blue and absolute and should be banned. A few girls said they admired the dress but begin it inconvenient. Given this trend, a half-sari may anon survive alone in achromatic photographs of the earlier bearing and the unrealistic creations of applique town.
HANIFA GHOSH
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