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Sensual silky sashay of the sari

CALL it a cross-dressing fetish.

I am fascinated by the sari. Six metres of cloth, woven from exceedingly humble cotton to the most luscious silk. It can be draped from the demure, to the scorchingly seductive.

The sari is the oldest continuously worn fashion garment in human history. Its style has remained pretty much the same since it graced the Indus Valley, Benares and Kanchipuram 5000 years ago.

In Western fashion, the mini-skirt, Breton shirt and

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