OOTD: Festivities and Sarees
Hey beautiful people! This is going to be the first
ever OOTD post on Elegant Eves. It is over two years now that Elegant Eves was
started but it never occurred to me that we could have an “Outfit of the day”
section too. Better late than never! And what better time can it be now that
the Navraatri have started J Also, I am finally going home after a
year for Durga Puja and it will not be possible for me to blog during the
vacation. So this will be my last post before I come back from vacation. Click
to read more :D
I grew up seeing my mother wearing pastels and light
colours mostly. Even in weddings, when others would be decked up in heavy and
bright coloured kanjeevarams and Banarasee sarees, my mother would be a style
statement in herself, in cottons and silks in shades of off-white, lilacs,
peaches and powder blue. But mostly, we would see her in whites and creams. So,
even though we have thousands around us who dwell in the idea that whites are
to be worn only when you are aged, (or worse if you are widowed!), we always
have had a fondness for whites courtesy our mommy darling.
Also, growing up in a Bengali household, handloom
cottons and silks always rule over georgettes and synthetic fabrics. Tussar
silk (Called Toshor silk in Bengali) being one of them. There are quite a few
kinds of fabrics created these days with Tussar silk threads (Gheecha Tussar
and Korean Tussar), but Gaachhi Tussar is supposedly the finest form of Tussar
which is handwoven with pure Tussar silk without any mixture. Now, quite
naturally, that costs quite a dough. Even though money was not a problem if I
saved up, I never found a design I could invest in: Some had a bit too much of
this and a tad less of that. So this “customization” freak decided that I would
get myself a plain Gaachhi Tussar which I could do some embroidery later on.
But till that embroidery dream came true, I decided
to have some colourful pompoms at the Aachal just to break the stark cream a
bit. Also, the boutique from where I sourced this also suggested that I dye the
blouse piece into magenta. (The boutique is Haate Naate. Click HAATE NAATE to
connect). I wanted a boat neck in the blouse but unfortunately my tailor cut
the neck a bit too deep :(
For accesorries, I literally drove my friend Mamta crazy
(who owns Desi By Nature page HERE) into fashioning me something to go with
this saree. I drew random designs and sent her and she had a hard time
explaining the design to her kaarigar.But in the end, my stunning piece of
Druzy and pearls set was ready :D
The ensemble turned out like this with a soft smokey
eye and dusty pink lips done by my friend Krupa on me (Click HERE to visit her
blog). Photos were clicked by another friend Francis and you can check his blog
at Iris Montage in Facebook
With this I end this post to take a looooooooong
break from blogging :D But I promise I will be back soon with lots of new
stories!! :) Happy Durga Puja everyone !
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