Saree is the most celebrated and fashionable garment now, Draping saree has been started by women thousands of years ago, Saree came into being during 2800–1800 BC in northwest India. The journey of the saree till now has been amazing, the trend of the Saree is unerasable for sure. The beginning of saree was from cotton, weavers started weaving cotton sarees and started dyeing them with colours like indigo, lac, red madder, turmeric, and what not.
The garb progressed from a popular word ‘sattika’ which means women’s attire, finds its mention in early Jain and Buddhist scripts. Sattika was a three-piece combo contains the Antriya – the lower garment, the Uttariya – a veil worn over the shoulder or the head and the Stanapatta which is a chest band. There are numerous types of sarees, some sarees are made of cotton, silk, ikkat, printed, embroidered, etc.
The evolution of sarees are very interesting to date
After wearing sarees only with dye was not enough for women so they asked artisans to use kind of stones which will be more attractive, and some gold threads, but saree never changed its still a garment which shows the Indian feminity and the ladies are proud of it.
The whole evolution of the saree is amazing, from the period it started and still maintaining its fluidity, women of most nationalities have adopted Western clothing for daily wear. But a majority of Indian women continue to wear the saree. More striking is the fact that it is only the women for whom traditional clothing is still daily worn. The cultural ideal of decorum and dignity is also satisfied by the sari. In the presence of God, husband, in-laws, or strangers, the married woman is often required to cover her head.
Another important reason behind the continued usage of the sari is the recently established cultural ideal of nationalism. For Indian women, to be Indian is to wear a sari. Indira Gandhi, with her Western education, frequently wore Western clothes in her youth. She gave them up for the sari the moment she took on a political persona. The sari has also made her Italian daughter-in-law, Sonia Gandhi, politically more acceptable to Indians. Both these women, who were constantly in the public eye, succeeded in diminishing the significance of foreign influence from their background primarily by adhering to the traditional sari dress code.
The sari is the most perceivable example of an Indian cultural paragon surrounding women. The sari-clad woman is both dignified and alluring, honorable and sensual.