Saturday 19 April 2008

A day in sari

Sari, the traditional dress of Indian women is a rather long piece of cloth and nothing more. It is the brain of some ancient Indian fashion designer which found out that a rather simple cloth of piece can be worn in such a confounded way to maximise the restriction to movement. Women of various states then found out various ways to get around this problem. The result is the varied ways of wearing sari that we find now. It can be said that it is the dress which has undergone the maximum number of 'experiments'.
Well, now to the topic. Mother helped me wear the sari. That was the least complicated part of all. I found I could not move half as fast as I usually do, after I had worn the sari. I salute all the women who run in their saris to board the buses. Really ladies, you are something!
I took five minutes to get down the stairs. The plaits were always blocking my way! Then came the road. It has a rising slope and I was exhausted by the time I reached the main road. Crossing the road took another ten minutes. I couldn't run and so I had to wait till the road was cleared of vehicles.
Then there was the way back - forget about it. I found out one thing about me - You will have to try real hard to make me wear a sari again!

4 comments:

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jj said...

haha.. nice one..
similar woes here too!
check it out 1

this one too

Sadique Ali said...

nice post...
never thought wearing a sari was so cumbersome..

shafeeq sha said...

I have seen many girls on sari....But its the first time hearing the experience of wearing it.... It may be so tough for the first time...But that doesn't mean its always like this.... You can say that you are learning to wear a sari...

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