This delicate blouse has the European high collar and full sleeves worn around the turn of the 20th century – generally known as Edwardian style. Strangely, I’m not sure I like it with the loose hair and widely sprigged saree on the lovely young woman who is mixing her sartorial metaphors. The sleeve ruffle is whitework on lawn or a similar light cotton. My guess is that the outfit would look better in the original colours, rather than the slightly odd added tints. But the overused title, Bombay Beauty, is certainly true in this case.
Wow–suh-nap! This is spookily reminiscent of Victorian and Edwardian dress designs from Hawai’i.
I’ve commented in the past about the similiarities between various vintage saree images presented within these pages and old Hawai’ian mu’u mu’u styles. But this one, or at least the blouse design, looks just like a turn of the century mu’u mu’u from the waist up. Only the pallu gives it away as being Hindustani.
In fact, with those thick, wavy cascades of hair flowing over her shoulders, she literally looks Hawai’ian!
Amazing.