Know your sarees!

[roman]

Originally Posted by goru
I know they are trying to do a diamond there, but I'm seeing something else... :P

I cant believe I am in a forum about Sarees. Ki je holo amar???

[Antora]

LOL Lamisa apu, I agree with you.
Btw What's with these random poses? :S They look really bad :|

[Rabz]

No follow up threads yet???
Purse and then shoes ??

Anyone ??

[mona]

Every time I see 'unique' ads, I always think about the meeting at the advertising company that forged the idea. Someone starts off saying 'I know.. how about we have them in odd positions? Yeah that'll get their attention' and then comes forth a rush of ideas, containing the words 'minimalism' and 'sensual' and 'mathematics'. And after that, all cool ads are ruined for me.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by ammark
her ugliness is immensely distracting unfortunately!

oh come on, she no dime, but she's not bad.

[al Furqaan]

the only thing a man should know about a sari is how much its gonna cost him.

[shaad]

I can't say that I find either these models, or their unorthodox draping of saris, attractive; but I remain convinced that the right sari, worn correctly, remains among the most elegant of female raiments.

I do recall, rather vividly, the moment when I first gained this appreciation for saris. It was at a birthday party for one of my classmates, and she and the other girls had all turned up dressed in saris. Now, these were girls I had known since kindergarten -- one was used to seeing them as peers, as sexless pseudo-siblings almost, where even the stray thought of a romantic fling would have been summarily dismissed as incestuous. But seeing them there, not in the blouse and skirt of the school uniform, or the tops and jeans that they usually wore, but in gorgeous, glorious saris, was to see a bevy of goddesses, plump and short, tall and skinny, in their prime. I don't believe any straight male at the party was the same thereafter; we had all found ourselves more than a little tongue-tied at the bash, and looked a little shell-shocked when we left.

[al Furqaan]

Originally Posted by shaad
I can't say that I find either these models, or their unorthodox draping of saris, attractive; but I remain convinced that the right sari, worn correctly, remains among the most elegant of female raiments.

i think this should be a scientific fact.

i don't care what ethnicity the wearer is, but yes, the right sari worn the "proper" way, is better than any thong or bikini. EVER.

[shaad]

For yet another recent take on saris, check out Shikha Dalmia's blog on Forbes.com:

Whose Sari Now?



Globalization produces different anxieties in different people. And for the high-priests of Indian culture it is the sari. Famous novelist, boy genius and former Indian cabinet minister Shashi Tharoor triggered a major attack of national handwringing a few years ago when he dressed down female reporters for not dressing up in saris for his press conference – and then penning a sappy plea to “save the sari from a sorry fate.” Other writers have been worried even longer than Tharoor.

In the wake of all the hyperventilating, many Indian fashionistas, eager to assert their social consciences, adopted the sari as their pet cause. And now, barely a few years later, they are declaring victory in their struggle. No less than the Washington Post recently announced that, thanks to the efforts of India’s top designers, the sari has made a comeback. If only the Bengal Tigers were so responsive!

To most Indian women it would be news that the sari was ever gone. The garment has survived for over 4,000 years without any benevolent, top-down intervention – and I suspect it will continue to do so. That’s because saris have always enjoyed a special relationship with Indian women and Indian women with them. And globalization will strengthen, not sunder, this relationship, possibly even winning new paramours for the outfit along the way.

Continued at Forbes.com