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Category Archives: Indian Cinema
The Spiritual Post
The word spiritual is a rather loose rubric for this post which encompasses women philosophers, traditions of mysticism and wandering minstrels. None of these is entirely exclusive of the other yet they are different ways of pursuing knowledge or the … Continue reading
Posted in 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, Ancient India, Culture, Early 20th Century, Hinduism, History, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian Singers, Indian Women, Late 19th century, Medieval India, miniature paintings, Paintings, vintage art
Tagged art history, baul, brahmavadini, Deccan Paintings, devotional songs, Indian History, Miniature Paintings, mysticism, spirituality, yogini
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The 1940s Post
The late 1940s was a time of somewhat boxy, padded blouses. This blouse on the actress and dancer Suryakumari for example is almost like a man’s shirt (or perhaps more correctly a pyjama top). As can be seen from the … Continue reading
Posted in 1940s, 20th century, Cinema, Dancer, Early 20th Century, Indian Cinema, Indian fashion, Sari, Sari Blouse, Singer, South India, South Indian Cinema, Vintage Blouse, vintage fashion
Tagged 1940s, 1940s fashion, blouse, boxy, Indian fashion, sari blouse, striped blouse, Suryakumari, Telugu actress
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The Indian Mod Post
Typically in the first half of an Indian movie you would have a Westernised heroine before the “curse of the second half” hit and out came the saris. And of course vamps were allowed to wear Western clothing all the … Continue reading
Puff Sleeve
The puff sleeve blouse. Always popular in almost every decade of the 20th century, particularly for young women. Judging from photographs I have seen, the simpler version (unlike the exaggerated sleeves of previous decades) was kind of de rigeur in … Continue reading
Posted in 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 20th century, 21st century, Actor, Colonial, Contemporary, Early 20th Century, fashion, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Indian Women, Sari, Sari Blouse, Sets, Vintage Blouse, vintage fashion
Tagged Aishwarya Rai, blouse, india, Indian fashion, Konkona Sen, MS Subbulakshmi, Nayantara, puff sleeve, vintage blouse
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Midweek Post-1
First up, Jayalalitha looking quite magnificent as Cleopatra [X] Not as magnificent but Ranveer Singh nicely fills out Arjun Saluja’s designs in a photofeature for Platoform Magazine.
Posted in 1960s, 2013, Contemporary, Costume, fashion, India, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Indian Women, Movies, Tamil Cinema, Women
Tagged cleopatra, jayalalitha, ranveer singh
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The Bengal Cotton Sari
Shabana Azmi’s cotton saris in Swami (1977) [X] set in rural Bengal. There is a long history of cotton clothing from Bengal and the woven cloth has distinctive patterns so that even most urban users can recognise a Bengal sari. … Continue reading
Tumblring
Its easy to post on tumblr, far more difficult to compose a wordpress post, hence the hiatus. Costumes in Deccan Paintings. There is a freshness and vigour to Deccan paintings and it’s always interesting to stumble across them. Dancing Ladies: … Continue reading
Posted in Early 20th Century, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Indian History, Indian Women, Medieval India
Tagged dance, Deccan, Deccan Paintings, Kashmir, Kashmiri Women, Kiss Curl, tumblr
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The Tamil Historical Post
The illustrations for Tamil periodicals have a long history and some illustrators are nearly as well known as the writers. A number of serialised stories are historical romances (think Chola empire, Pallavas) and the drawings are fairly vivid in recreating an era, albeit … Continue reading
Posted in 20th century, Ancient India, Costume, Early 20th Century, fashion, Hair, History, Illustration, India, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian fashion, Indian History, Indian men, Indian Women, Jewellery, Love, Novels, Period Drama, Romance, Royalty, Sari, Sari Blouse, Tamil, Tamil Cinema, Vintage, Women
Tagged ancient india, chola, historical costume, historical drama, illustrations, kalki, pallava, parthiban kanavu, sandilyan, sujatha, Tamil, Tamil Cinema, Tamil magazines, tamil women, Vyjayanthimala, yavana rani
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1940s-1960s
A brief look at fashions on film. 1, The 1940s. Noor Jahan in Anmol Ghadi (1946). This kind of square neck blouse was popular in the late 40s and continued to be so in the early 50s. The sequinned sari of course has … Continue reading
Posted in 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Actor, Cinema, Costume, Culture, Early 20th Century, fashion, Indian Cinema, Indian Dress, Indian Women, Movies, Old Bollywood, Sari, Sari Blouse, Sets, Vintage Blouse, Vintage Dress
Tagged 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Anmol Ghadi, Aranyer Din Ratri, early 20th century, fashion, india, indian cinema, Indian fashion, Kaberi Bose, Noorjehan, sari, sari blouse, Satyajit Ray, Sharmila Tagore, Shyama, Suraiya, Vintage Fashion
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