#100sareepact (2\/100)<\/p>\n
After the classic red and green combo, this is another favourite \u2013 black and red. Guess many of us have a love affair with the colour red \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
This saree is 48 years old and the flower prints are my Maasi’s fabric hand-painted work. Back in 1967, these were called \u2018imported\u2019 sarees. A feather-light nylon, it is soft with a kind of grainy feel to the texture.<\/p>\n
Feel immensely thrilled to be wearing something my Aunt showered her love towards and it is still with us 48 years down the line. Noticed a couple of small tears on the pallo edge, but wore it anyway.<\/p>\n
Paired it with a red crochet tank top, brass earrings, wooden bracelets, a red and gold beaded wooden pendant hand made by a friend.<\/p>\n
Wearing a saree after four years, for four hours last evening, I ran an errand at the pharmacy and hospital, took the car out for a drive, and landed up at one of my favourite chaat shops for dinner.<\/p>\n
Got a whole lot of stares from people known and unknown. The known ones showered me with compliments since me in a saree is a rare lunar sighting \ud83d\ude1b and the unknown people at the hospital and chaat shop must have wondered what on earth I was up to. I also noticed that NONE my age were clad in a saree, either western casuals or salwar\/churidars, much like the way I am usually dressed myself.<\/p>\n
Special love and thank yous to my aunt Asha Kamath, who owns a gorgeous saree collection, and fellow sareepacters (you all know who you are!) who encouraged, teased, cajoled me to join the #100sareepact. To borrow a cliched tag line \u2013 I\u2019m lovin\u2019 it!! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
So why is this being called the \u2018F\u2019 saree?<\/p>\n
\u2013 Flowers that were Fabric painted by hand!
\n\u2013 Forty-eight year-old saree!
\n\u2013 Fabric is as light as a Feather!
\n\u2013 Wore a saree after Four years!
\n\u2013 Wore it for Four hours! Drove around town and even ate chaat\u2026and hence\u2026
\n\u2013 FUN!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
#100sareepact (2\/100) After the classic red and green combo, this is another favourite \u2013 black and red. Guess many of us have a love affair with the colour red \ud83d\ude42 This saree is 48 years old and the flower prints are my Maasi’s fabric hand-painted work. Back in 1967, these were called \u2018imported\u2019 sarees. A…<\/p>\n