Classic black saree
Nice!
A while ago, somebody had suggested that I should have “Firangi Friday” of showing off non-desis wearing sarees. I can see why!
Leave a comment if you think that Firangi Friday is something that you will enjoy.
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Sunny is a designer in Los Angeles. He loves the fluidity and fluency of a saree and believes that when a woman wears a saree, she not only adorns her body but she also adorns her soul. His design ethos is that “simplicity never goes out of style.”
Rupa Gupta: A writer, editor and journalist, Rupa has been in the media for more than two decades. She has worked as Editor with major publications, both in India and abroad. a keen eye for fashion and current trends. Her sense of aesthetics transcends the hype and always finds the true beauty.
Liza Varma is a former Femina Miss India and well known model in Delhi. Today, she is a leading Fashion Choreographer with over 1000 shows to her credit in India and abroad. She is also a member of the Fashion Design Council of India and a Consultant with Shoot Talent Management. Her client list is the who’s who of Indian fashion industry.
Misty is a student in London and has her fingers on the pulse of London fashion industry.
Abhi is a student in San Francisco and showcases sensuous saree pictures.
Kamini is a model in Los Angeles and loves to accentuate the best a saree has to offer.
I definitely would enjoy Farangi Friday!!!!!!!!!!!! I am farangi too…. (half Native American ["red indian"] half scottish decent, married a muslim bengali). But I’m as full of love for saree as any of the american born desis I know, and both of my boys have Indian blood: “American Indian Indian Americans” I call them. I’ll send you a couple of pics of me in saree next month, if you like.
Yes, please have Farangi Fridays! I would love to see sarees on women of all backgrounds. They are probably the most classic (not to mention beautiful) clothing around, and since the rest of the fashion world is finally taking notice, it will help us show them that all women can appreciate and wear the sari.
I agree-definitely!
absloutly! Love the blog
Farangi is such a disparaging word.
Two thumbs up for the Firangi Friday idea!
I’m a firangi too (italian for this lifetime) and check this blog every day ever since I discovered it. Saree is the most beautiful garment of all times and i hope desis are ok with sharing it with the rest of the world…
BTW I also completely endorse the idea of featuring the czech sari.unas website here! (if “unas” means “sisters” which I guess it does, I would think they emulated the sari sisters at sarisafari.com – more firangis, with great draping tutorials!)
Heartfelt thanks to Sunny for your great work and to the whole Sareedreams crew.
I think it would be okay to see some saree photo’s with non-Indians, but to see it every friday? I feel like the Traditional Tuesday and Wordless Wednesday are enough, actually.
I guess I am the only one that is not feeling much for “Firangi Friday”…
Jasmine: No, you’re not alone on this one.
So, are you two unhappy to see Naomi Campbell here? She may not be a “white” chick but last I heard, she’s not Indian. Is she not a Firangi? I saw models in the great Indian Fashion Week photos who also were not South Asian. Should the designers have used only models from India? How awful could it be to have an image of one French or Italian or Native American woman wearing a really interesting sari image each Friday?
@Sarah, Clio, OpalFlower, Anon and Ayasha. Thanks for the input. It is appreciated.
@MandyPandy – I don’t think Firangi is disparaging word any more than Yankee is a disparaging word in current days. Yes, it was used in disparaging fashion, but now it is used “normally” in casual conversations. In fact, there are several restaurants that I know that have Firangi in the name – Firangi Pani is a famous British Pub in India. So I am ok with using the word Firangi. I could call them Videsi Sari day, but I like the ring Firangi Friday has.
@Jasmine. It will be called Firangi Friday, but you won’t see Firangi photos every Friday any more than you see Traditional Tuesday every Tuesday. I know I am not posting enough of traditional tuesday pictures.
I think as Saree becomes more popular among non-Indians, Firangi Friday post will try to capture that progression. So if I find some stunning Firangi pics, I’ll post them.
@Sarah – I love the “American Indian Indian American” thing. Does it mean the kids will be American Indian Indian American – ABCD?
Thank you all of you for visiting the site.
OpalFlower, hi from the Czech Republic! I am one of Czech “sariholics”, whose website you have meant. We love sarees also and our websites and chatrooms are wonderful places to share our experiences, organize our meetings, show our sarees and so on …(unas.cz is free domain, not connected with our names)
So thumbs up for the Firangi Fridays from Czech Firangis also!
Sunny — no, no confusion with them (that’s what the C in ABCD stands for, right?) They come home after school every day to a wonderful and deeply traditional lady from Bangladesh who tutors them in language and religion. They’ve also been over there to visit family (their fathers family ranges from the Kanpur area, to Kolkata, to Dhaka –multinational family, but their blood is Indian), and I plan to take them again in the next couple of years. Hopefully, the only confusion will lie with the stranger who asks “what kind of Indian?” and they say “All of them!”
clio: Sometimes I wonder why you even bother, but I’ll try to respond to your asinine comment.
I happen to love Naomi Campbell, nimrod, and I love seeing her in sarees even more; I’m more concerned with the sarees themselves than who’s wearing them, but (like Jasmine) I just don’t wish to have the sight of non-desis in saree turned into a gimmick. A saree is a saree is a saree, in my opinion, no matter the wearer’s nationality, and I don’t see why any saree wearers should be singled out simply on the base of ethnicity for “Firangi Friday”.
PS: Please remove the stick firmly embedded in your cornshoot before replying, next time.
Sunny: “Videsi Sari Day” does have a nice ring to it.
Yes . . . I’d love to see this Firangi Friday! I always enjoy seeing people who aren’t Indian wearing sarees . . . the more I see, the more brave I’m getting to taking my sarees out of the storage box to sear during the summer. I need to get on with sewing the blouses up (I like my blouses to have some ease under my arms).