Dresses for Summer Clothing India

Many ensembles of contemporary Indian clothes combine draped garments of uncut cloth with tailored clothing. Typical in this respect is the widely popular Salwar kamiz and dupatta, the ghaghra and backless blouse or bodice (kapadu, kanchali), and odhani, and of course, the sari and choli (short blouse). Men’s dhoti and lungi are commonly worn with tailored smocks (kediyun, pl, kediya), tunics (kamiz or kurta) and coats (angarkha and sherwani). Many of the tailored garments for the upper and lower body worn in India allude to broader regional customs, and are common to other parts of India and South Asia, notably Pakistan. Some of these generic styles are rendered specific to a Indian community, or area of the state, the use of particular fabrics, colours and styles of decoration, and in the case of the sari, by distinctive ways of pleating and draping.

Summer Clothing India Fashion Trends

Western style became part of the mix during the colonial period, although there was no compulsion for Indians to adopt it; indeed, the British actively discourage imitation. Nonetheless, some Indian men did, combining Indian and Western clothing styles, or wearing garments that fused elements of both. The response to western styles varied and, in part, reflected the degree of contact with Europeans; where it was minimal, western clothes were little in evidence. Clothes, as Emma Tarlo suggests, was that, ‘Western clothes did not fit into the existing classification of appropriate caste, regional and religious style