The Origin of Indian Traditional Costume

Indian women's clothes are colorful, and traditional clothes mainly include sari and Punjab clothes. Sari is the most distinctive national costume in India. It is said that sari has a history of more than 5,000 years, and female images wearing sari are common in ancient Indian sculptures and murals. The earliest sari was only worn in religious ceremonies, and later it gradually evolved into a common dress for women. Sally is a piece of cloth about 6 meters long and nearly 2 meters wide. Wear it with a petticoat called Betty Goyle and a corset called Gempar, and wrap it around your body to show your arms and waist. Sari is made of various materials, such as pure cotton, chemical fiber and silk. Most of the saris worn by the poor are made of cotton or coarse cloth, while those worn by women are made of silk or tulle, decorated with patterns made of gold and silver thread, with colorful and ever-changing patterns. The winding way of "sari" also varies with different regions and castes. Professional women and pampered women wear different styles of saris. There are many styles of saris. The most famous saris are silk saris and printed linen saris produced in Gujarat, which are naturally expensive. In addition to sari, Indian women also like to wear another national costume called Punjab. The upper body is a loose knee-length coat, and beautiful patterns are usually embroidered on the neckline, chest and cuffs. Under it, they are wearing a pair of tights called "Serva" and a scarf as thin as cicada's wings around their necks from front to back. Women in modern cities like to wear wide T-shirts and jeans, while fashionable female students on campus wear tights and miniskirts, or western-style long skirts.

Traditional men's wear, called "Gu Kurta" and "Dhoti", is actually a piece of cloth wrapped around the waist, usually three or four meters long white cotton cloth, hemp or silk, wrapped around the waist, hanging to the knees or instep, and some have piping. Men usually wear this traditional dress at home. In some rural areas, men usually don't wear shirts, just put a sweat towel on their shoulders, or put a cloth around their upper body and put one end on their shoulders. People call it "Chad". Wearing headscarves, headscarves have different colors and different ways of wrapping. Rajasthan headscarves and Sikh headscarves are very famous, and sometimes people put feathers on them. Ordinary people seldom wear socks. Most people wear sandals even in the cold season, and sometimes they wear leather shoes instead of socks. Because of the hot climate, it is very popular for men to wear hunting clothes when they go out. The traditional Indian formal suit is similar to the Zhongshan suit, with a small stand-up collar, a row of buttons in the middle and narrow-legged pants below. Because India is a British colony for a long time, suits are very popular, but there are not as many people wearing formal Indian national costumes as suits.