Category Archives: Sari Blouse

The War Effort Post

Posted on 06/11/2012 by Anu M

Training for Air Raid Precautions, Bombay 1942. All the sarees are worn Parsi style. Its kind of interesting that the blouse as a form of sedreh worn under the sari is relatively unchanged over two decades or so. As are … Continue reading →

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The Book Extract Post

Posted on 04/11/2012 by Anu M
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The Period Drama Post

Posted on 04/11/2012 by Anu M

The movie adaptation of Maitreyi starred Hugh Grant and Supriya Pathak and is a listless Jean-Claude Carriere adaptation in which the costuming is the least of its troubles. But it is as uncertain as Hugh Grant’s French accented English in the film, … Continue reading →

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When Mircea met Maitreyi

Posted on 04/11/2012 by Anu M

She is without doubt the most gifted and enigmatic of all the girls I have known.  But obviously I cannot marry. What will become of my freedom? Mircea is twenty-three, I am sixteen. But both of us are a bit too … Continue reading →

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The Period Drama Post

Posted on 01/11/2012 by Anu M

Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam is set in 19th century Calcutta.  The women who appear in the film belong to different classes.  Of the two main characters Choti Bahu (Meena Kumari) belongs to the feudal, zamindari class who are presumably Orthodox Hindus.  Jaba (Waheeda … Continue reading →

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The Period Drama Post

Posted on 30/10/2012 by Anu M

And a bit on Raima Sen, whose attire in these pictures have varying degrees of fidelity to the period they are set in (Chokher Bali: 1903, Naukadubi: 1920s,The Japanese Wife: uncertain) and who must surely hold some kind of record for … Continue reading →

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The Period Drama Post

Posted on 30/10/2012 by Anu M

There aren’t a whole lot of period dramas in India though they turn up now and then, often in Bengali cinema with Tagore stories being remade often. I am not a stickler for detail in period drama neither do I … Continue reading →

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The Studio Portrait

Posted on 29/10/2012 by Anu M

Just to wind up on the India/China theme, Garas aka the Chinese emboridered silk sarees with corodinated somewhat ornate blouses. Plus first pic, the one on the right seems to have a pretty spectacular bird of paradise.  Gara in the second picture is … Continue reading →

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An Add-On to tumblr

Posted on 28/10/2012 by Anu M

Moved my tumblr on vintage saree blouses to wordpress. The editing of individual entries is in progress and will take some time. In the meantime I will duplicate new posts here and the ongoing tumblr is here: http://vintagesareeblouse.tumblr.com/archive And as with … Continue reading →

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Ms Hublikar’s Blouse

Posted on 27/10/2012 by Anu M

Update: Here is the Shanta Hublikar song.  The blouse seems a little fancy with bow ties on the sleeves. In fact a number of blouses that Ms Hublikar wears in this movie are like 1920s/1930s dresses with the bottom part swan … Continue reading →

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