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SareeSutra: Baishakhi Look in Dhakai Jamdani
My fashionistas, bored with Indo-Western styling? Now it’s time to get traditional and look like a true Bong-beauty. In Baishakhi, Bengali women love to wear saree, preferably a white saree with red...
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SareeSutra: South-Indian Off-white Cotton Saree with Silk Golden Border
My fashionistas, here is a look that I tried yesterday at the Saraswati puja-the Goddess of Education, music and culture, it is celebrated on the 5th day of the official start of the spring season. The...
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SareeSutra: Two-tone Chiffon with 3D Floral Border
My fashionistas, when an outfit is simple, enhance it with a strong accessory that reflects your playful personality. Read this post to know how! I was in Delhi for four days in 2010. When you are...
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SareeSutra: Georgette Saree with Sequins Border
My fashionistas, as much as we love looking at women in sarees, many of you out there have cold feet to don one and go out there without worrying ”How to drape perfectly?”, ”How am I going to walk in...
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SareeSutra: Saree Draping Basics
My fashionistas, as promised before, this is my very first video blog here. I receive lots of requests from Saree loving followers to show them how to drape a saree in a very basic way. So, this post...
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SareeSutra: KaNtha stitch on Tussar silk
My fashionistas, there are some cliches around donning a particular type of traditional saree but they will always be welcome by me. I take pride in wearing sarees that can be trashed as Grandma’s...
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SareeSutra: Bengali New Year’s look
My fashionistas, hope you all had a great weekend! Before we all start mourning over the brutal fact that it’s Monday again, I thought to share a look to usher the Bengali New Year 1421. Bengali New...
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SareeSutra: Durga Puja Look 1: When Tanusree wears Tanusree
My fashionistas, wish you all a very happy Durga Puja if you are celebrating, if you don’t, you can always share happiness and joy with others any time. Yes, over the years, religious festivals have...
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SareeSutra: Durga Puja Look 2: Marriage of Bamboo Silk & Benarasi
My fashionistas, as promised earlier, here is my Durga Puja look 2 for Ashtami featuring a black bamboo silk saree with wide gold border and with water print cross-box design paired with magenta...
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SareeSutra: Designer Affair: Raa Studio+ Lovetobag+ Prerto
My fashionistas, those of you have following this blog closely, know that I had been to Croatia in August to attend my friend’s wedding. This was my very first experience attending an European wedding...
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SareeSutra: Rajasthani Bandhej Chiffon Tie & Dye: A Mehendi Ceremony Guest Look
My fashionistas, with a list of parties to attend, the on-going wedding season in India or anywhere in the subcontinent can be quite a stressful affair. While you have your outfit sorted out for your...
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SareeSutra: Wearing Queen of Hearts by Deepa Mehta
”A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it, it just blooms.” Saree, being my most favourite desi wear, I unveiled this column draping with the label SareeSutra sometime in last...
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SareeSutra: Durga Puja Look: How to Refashion Plain Yardstick to a Designer...
My passion and enthusiasm for antique textiles and trims has always coincided with a desire to find creative ways to use and enjoy them. I will always collect these items and continue to give a...
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SareeSutra: Durga Puja Look: Wearing Bamboo Silk Handloom Saree
If you thought Durga Puja was all about praying to the Goddess, standing in long queues to taste some delicious bhog (food offered to Goddess and then distributed among those who are visiting) and...
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SareeSutra: Durga Puja Look: Wearing Kanjeevaram Silk and Amrapali Jewels
Designer sarees may come and go but there is something to be said about rich traditional silks. We’ll never get tired of them. In this post, I’m going to share how I cut quite the festive picture on in...
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SareeSutra: Diwali Look: Donning Rainbow in AYINAT By Taniyaa O’Connor
”Autumn is the second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus Autumn’s initial brilliance is turning down and leaves are falling everywhere. Temperatures are steadily dropping though by...
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SareeSutra: Embellished White Net Saree and Rosy Sun Rays Hair-do
Over the weekend, I attended Saraswati Puja. Goddess Saraswati is revered as the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music and art. I was happy to finally have reached ‘white’. Although most people would wear...
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Pohela Boishakh Look: A Tribute to Tagore’s Female Characters
“For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World Pohela Boishakh Look: A Tribute to Tagore’s Female...
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SareeSutra: Wearing Handloom Baluchori
Around 95% of the world’s hand woven fabric comes from India. On 7th August, when India celebrated its second National Handloom Day, the Textiles ministry initiated the #IWearHandloom campaign, urging...
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রবি ঠাকুরের নারী চরিত্রদের প্রতি শ্রদ্ধাঞ্জলি
“For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World পহেলা বৈশাখের সাজগোজ – রবি ঠাকুরের নারী চরিত্রদের প্রতি...
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