INDIAN TRADITIONAL DRESSES • Steem Women Club Contest #19 Local Dress Promotion • 09-06-2021

Hello beautiful women, I hope you all are safe and strong and doing great.

I'm here in this beautiful platform @steemwomensclub and learned so much from you all and I'm glad to be a part of this strong community.
I always found this community active and so hardworking.

I get to know about this contest, and decided to participate in #womenclublocaldress. And found this so interesting to know about others culture and traditions.

INDIAN LOCAL DRESSES

About Indian Tradition
INDIA is a vast country. It's a combination of different cultures. From having different cultures to different dance, music, food, traditions, religion, languages to different dresses.
All traditions and cultures are beautiful itself but I love my hindu culture and traditions.
Different cultures have there own tranditions, food, traditional dress, religion.

For example- GUJARAT have their own food, dress, culture and language (gujarati).

MAHARASHTRA have their own culture, food, dress, traditions and language (marathi).

ASSAM have their own culture, food, dress, traditions, and language (Assamese). And so on.

INDIA have 22 languages with different cultures, dresses, religions, foods. Which is rare in any country and this makes our country more beautiful and strong.

GUJARATI LEHENGA

Gujarati lehenga speciality of gujarati tradition. Women loves to wear this colourful and heavy worked lehenga.
On the occasion of Navratri (9 Days festival) of India which depicts our 9 Devi celebrated as DANDIYA the dance festival.
Women wear this lehenga and play/perform dandiya with eachother.

We have also performed in Dandiya night festival.
And I love this traditional dress. It's so colourful and beautiful which shows new season and beginning In our culture.

SAREE

The journey of saree starts with cotton cloth but now it's available in so many variations such as :-
Chiffon
Silk
Cotton
Crepe
Georgette
Kalam kari
Madhurai sungadi
Muslin fabric, etc.

In INDIA women always wear traditional dresses on occasions such as marriage, festival, poojan, etc.
Saree is one of them. Indian women always wear saree from special occasions to normal days.
Saree on Normal days are light and easy to carry on daily basis. On the other hand traditional saree is more heavy and carry some weight as per design or material work.

Yellow colour represent new life and glow and colour of haldi (Turmeric). In India women always wear yellow clothes on Haldi ceremony.

^{Me and Bride}

^{Me wearing cotton saree}

^{School farewell (Me in pink saree)}

Saree On Graduation Day

^{Me in Saree on Graduation Day}

I'm wearing simple chiffon saree on my Graduation Day which is essential in most of the college although you have choice but most of girls love to wear saree on there special Day.

LEHENGA

LEHENGA is also a traditional dress of India. Lehenga means lower skirt and choli means blouse.
It more common in Gujarat, Harayana and Rajasthan.

^{Wedding dress (lehenga)}

In INDIA Bride mostly wear red LEHENGA on her wedding day and groom wears shervani (kurta and dhoti) with pagdi.
Red colour is symbolised our goddess Durga and Parvati. Hindu goddess always picturised in colour (RED). This is the main reason why indian bride always wear red colour.

^lehenga

^{Me in lehenga}

I personally loves to wear LEHENGA whenever I get a chance. INDIAN princess ( Rajasthan ) wore lehenga with heavy jewellery. Indian women wears saree, suit and lehenga according to their tradition.

I invite my friend @jyoti-thelight, @leenaa, @rinkisaxena and @sduttaskitchen to participate in this beautiful contest.

Cost of lehenga varies from material to material. Usually the amount of non bridal lehenga is around 142 Steem or less and more.

Thank you @steemwomensclub for conducting this beautiful community and contest.

Thank you