The Constituency OF COLOUR
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the name Maharani Gayatri Devi? Chiffon sarees in muted colours, perhaps. But did you know that when she went trousseau shopping in Calcutta as a young, to-be bride, she picked items in the most garish colors? Her mother reportedly rejected all of them and chose 200 saris in silk and chiffon instead.
Gayatri Devi did her trousseau shopping only once her wedding was fixed. But in many traditional Indian homes, the putting together of the trousseau begins while the girl is still young, with no idea and even less inclination towards matrimony.
It’s the mothers, with a weakness for weaves, who get the ball rolling and start collecting sarees from across the country. It’s more Discovery of
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