A Fat Girl's Ode to Sabya- "A Dark Diwali"

They say imitation is the best form of flattery, I do not believe so! But this Diwali shopping or for that over a decade I’ve been through rejections from designer/shopkeeper or for that matter even that local darzi that refuses to stitch cos ”Madam kapda bahut Lagega and Time bhi”! Yup That’s the answer I”ve heard over a decade now and it never seems to sound any less painful.

Being a designer I wanted to emote my way through a dress that would imitate A bigwig and let me feel the way every girl does in her designer outfits. I only own probably a Masaba cos Saree need no size!

I went out to source my cloth and well get inspired from the Royal Darling Designer Sabyasachi! Yup, I did it! Sorry if I offend any of you Sabya fans or for that matter Sabyasachi too, but I just wanted to feel like    a normal person (cos being FAT is not normal)  trying  to put her best foot forward.

Sabyasachi and Manish Arora have been my design heroes for decades now and truly ate and breathe design since I was 12!

                                                       

                      

Coming to my post I have paired up two dupattas over my lehenga and clinched it with a metal belt.The rice beads clutch is from my mother's wardrobe.

The gorgeous outfit is perfectly paired with these silver earrings polished in antique gold from AQUAMARINE. The lehenga is forest lush green with sequin and antique matter gold work and the Lehenga skirt is also made with the same sequins .Although I do not wear a dupatta along but to emote Sabyasachi I paired two. The hair is a sizeable pouf that is obviously done by THE MAD HAIR SCIENTIST. I’m Wearing wedges  underneath from Forever21 to be comfortable, the skirt alone weighs 8 kgs.

Talking about my fabulous earrings from Aquamarine they are definitely a head turner. Though quite heavy they are a sure shot way to fetch genuine compliments this Diwali season. The brand has panned out to COLABA,LOKHANDWALA,BREACH CANDY And The very new one being in Delhi’s Khan market. The team is headed by Designer Santosh Bathija. They have a piece for every taste and every budget.

This is what I wear for Diwali today, What about you? Show me your outfits please, where do you find them?
I will be writing to you for my Bhaiya Dooj post, till then

XoXo

Sorry Not Saree

A Portuguese traveller in the early 1500s described saree as

"The women wear white garments of very thin cotton or silk of bright colour ,five yards long, one part of which is girt round their below and the other part on their shoulder across their breasts in such a way that one arm and shoulder remain uncovered"

The deep involvement and complete sense of identity of the Indian women with the sari, has made her resist the pressure to change her style of dress ,inadvertently providing continuity in weaving traditions of every part of the country. The sari represents a culture in which the woven and the textured-with -pattern garment pierced or intruded upon by the stitching needle was considered not only more appropriate in terms of aesthetics and climate but was an act of greater purity and simplicity. The sari allows us to go back at least a thousand years in terms of design. It is conceived on the loom as a three-dimensional garment with variables in pattern, weave and structure between its inner and outer end pieces and its two borders which provide drape ,strength and weight.

Please, please ,Amba my goddess I fear I am caught in my paithani sari

Please Siva my god,let me play fearlessly with her.

-Commemorative verse to Goddess Amba

Magentas,Green ,Reds clashing against the Benarasi Golden threads indulges India's obesession for dazzling contrasts evoking mad harmony while exploring the handwoven textile Paithani in its simplest form for this blog post .

It's a sort of nostalgic journey I embark on with my grandma's paithani.

The festive season is a time all about letting go of the old and making way for the new. So why not same for the wardrobe instead just flinching strides of a remixed version of your grandmothers wardrobe to make your own.

STYLE TIP: Those looking to hide your love handles this drape comes in super handy also no need to carry your dupatta so you can accentuate curve sat all the right places with this high waisted lehenga.

My Lehenga is courtesy Label Sailesh Singhania and the paithani saree is my nanis. I hope you enjoy my take on Indian outfits as much as my western counterparts.