Sri Lanakan Sarees

Here are some more pictures of the classic Kandyan Saree for the Sri Lankan airline. In the last picture, you can see a white and maroon Kendyan saree which is more traditional and not necessarily very flattering. But the new design is very contemporary, very soft and captures the spirit of Sri Lanka.

Here is the last post about the Kandyan Saree uniform.

Love the new Sri Lankan Airline Saree Uniform -iconic Kandyan Saree

Sri Lankan airlines flight stewardesses display their new attire in Colombo.

Their iconic Kandyan Saree uniform still retains its oriental charm but yet have a distinctive modern appeal and contemporary look. The new colour palette plays with the soft hues of sea blue splashed with the delicate multi-hued motifs of the peacock feather with its shimmering iridescent bursts of electric orange mottled with dark, light blue and white.

I will post some more pics of this awesome saree. This is a quadra-dose of delight for me; I love uniform sarees, I love iconic ethnic drapes, I love gorgeous peacock color combination and I think that Sri Lankan beauties are adorable!

White Uniform Saree

I find saree uniform to be especially interesting and a very feminine way of displaying individuality but at the same time keeping the uniformity.

Saree Uniform or bridesmaids?

Can’t tell if this is a saree uniform or bridesmaids dresses – and the fact that I can’t distinguish between the two is not a good thing.

Indian Military Uniform Saree from 1945

Indian Military Uniform Saree from the Life magazine June 1945.

Love the collar on the saree blouse!

Military Saree

A saree military uniform from West Bengal’s northern region Darjeeling. Another example of the saree’s versatility and it goes to show that the saree is not just a danity feminine piece of apparel. It is elegance and power rolled into one.

Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/urikrishna/1937735595/

Saree as a required uniform – please don’t make it mandatory!

No saree, no attendance for interns in this Chennai college

CHENNAI: V Kamalam, a homoeopathy student, has been denied attendance in a city college, which says interns should wear only sarees during their one-year internship. Her plea that she never wore a saree in her life and that she would wear `decent’ salwars during the period have not cut ice with the management. The Madras high court, which has reserved its order in the matter, may deliver the verdict in a few days.

But this is not the first time such a controversy has reached the court. In 2004, a school in T Nagar made sarees mandatory for its women teachers. Men were asked to come in pants and full-sleeve shirts. Four Anglo-Indian faculty members, who had difficulty in complying with the order, started wearing traditional Tamil attire in protest. The management fined them, at the rate of Rs 25 per day.

From Times of India.

Nobody appreciates saree and respects the connection between the saree and the traditions more than I do, but I can’t possibly condone this.