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How to wear a saree in ghagra style?

April 26th, 2008 by UTSAV

How to wear a saree in ghagra style?


Now to wear a ghagra, we start with the basic tuck from here. Take your odhani right behind, now start making pleats. Bring to your knee used and pin it up on your shoulders. Now take this right behind. Make a tuck and remove this from here. Now very tightly and bring it a move heavier look. You will take this dupatta from your behind and pin this in front like this.

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How to wear a saree in Bengali style?

April 26th, 2008 by UTSAV

How to wear a saree in bengali style?


Now see this is the basic tuck we have done and now you gonna learn the Bengali style.
I know everybody you all must be waiting for this style. So this is done this way, you have done the basic. Take this saree and make a reverse pleat. Reverse pleat is a pleat where you can see your fall down. Now tuck this in, saree till here giving it a very nice neat effect. Now make your pleats equally. These pleats have to be equally and Bengalis usually they wear a bordered saree. So whenever you wearing a bordered saree just work it over the border, dont take the material with it. Keep throwing the material back till you get this border straight. This has to be vertically going up and dont worry about the materials. There will be a lot of material going back. Now that you have thrown the material back pin this portion from here and very neatly take out this and pin this side like this to get a nice effect over here like this. Now take this material from behind and like the Bengalis generally add the key ring to the end and throw it back. So if you feel like you can add if you dont what you can do is just take this border and pin it up over here. And see how a Bengali brides look.

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How to wear a saree in Flowing style?

April 26th, 2008 by UTSAV

How to wear a saree in flowing style?


 

Now this is a basic tuck you have already done.Now take this right back this way gather the material and throw it till your knee. This way gather the material and throw it till your knee. Now take this material from hem, bring it in forward and give it a tuck. Now this is called a falling palla or throwing style in which you don’t have to pin taking the pleats. Now make your pleats like this in the basic, the first drape I have taught you to take this & pin this up here. In this falling palla we are not doing this, we are leaving this material and we are tucking this right below a naval. Now to give it a neat effect, what we are doing is, take this material from here and give this to this hand of yours and pull. The moment you gonaa to pull you gonna get a nice tight effect over here. This thing. Just give it a twist, insert the material inside very neatly with your two fingers. Now this is what you get. Throw the palla, pinning it up behind. Now we have pinned it back. See you have got a nice neat effect over here. The whole work of your saree is being seen. Now if you, if you gonna carry this way , your saree , its gonna fall off. So what we need to do is, we need to pin this up. To pin this up what you gonna do is gather the material here like this. Make small pleats of them. Hold the material like this. Take it right to the side of your waist and pin it over here. To pin this. what you gonna do is take this material out and pin it here like this and now it’s like this. So whenever this saree you wear this saree, this borders is not gonna move. Its gonna stay in its place.

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How to wear a saree in Mermaid style?

April 26th, 2008 by UTSAV

How to wear a saree in mermaid style?


 

Now, this is the basic as you have already tucked. This time its known as a fish-style or the mermaid style as it gives you a shape like a mermaid. Again make your pleats in equal parts and throw it till this. Dust them a little hard and tuck it below your naval. Give it a nice neat finish. Take this saree from here, take it right behind and this saree is gonna come here in front, like this. Now we will take this material and your will add a pin here with your pleats. You will take the pleats plus the petticoat and pin it up so that it stays tight.

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How to wear a saree in Rajasthani style?

April 26th, 2008 by UTSAV

How to wear a saree in rajasthani style?


As you have seen the tuck in the basic style, we will move forward, this is our second drape and now you are learning the Rajasthani style that is generally known as the sedha palla. Again this is being tucked here, you take this material and pleat the thing very neatly in equal folds. Bring it forward just right above your knee length and pin it here. Now take this material and leave it a little so that this fall like cowl at behind. Now pleat them, take this material like this, tuck it in here and then take all your pleats again right below your naval and tuck the entire material inside. Always finish you saree inside with your two fingers. Now take this material , the palla and pin it here, and you are with your seedha palla.

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How to wear a saree in basic style?

April 26th, 2008 by UTSAV

How to wear a saree?

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Basic tuck always start from here. You tuck your sarees seeing the length of how much you wanted from the floor. The saree should never float on the floor, nor it should be very high. Now we will make the pallu. To make the pallu, take the saree right around, give a tuck here and start pleating your saree. This is how you pleat your saree. Hold them properly, make beautiful pleats out of them and place them on your shoulder right below your knee. Now before pinning this up what you have to do is, take this out so that you have a nice neat effect here. Take this saree from your back and do a tuck here. Take this saree from your back and do a tuck here. Now before doing anything else pin this up otherwise it gotta fall off. Now take this saree like this bring it over here and you add a pin here. This pin is given to add a nice neat effect over here. Now start making a pleats of the lower left over material, this is how you make pleatshold them properly dust them so that they fall off straight down. Tuck the entire saree just in between your naval like this. Now before tucking this entire thing this end, this end has to be pulled. When you pulling this effect is coming up tight you just give it a twist tuck it in take the rest material and tuck the entire thing inside. This is how you wear the basic saree.

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