I bought a Banarasi-style sari for my birthday (only a week late)! Since I just got it, I don’t have the blouse made or anything, and it is not ready to wear at all. However, I can still show you some sweet pictures of the color (light purple/gray- apparently it makes me look like a girl) and the hand-work. There are a couple of things that make this sari from Banaras. One is the type and style of the embroidery. While it will have specific patterns, the color is also always gold, as you can see. This sari is also made of 100% silk, which makes it pretty typical for a fancy sari (of course, that also makes it expensive, even with our discount. Definitely more expensive than any dress I bought for high school dances, but that is not saying much… maybe it would be more descriptive to say that it was about as much as buying 2 tickets to an average theater production in Chicago…).
This is separate from Banaras- style embroidery, which can be seen on the kurta that I’m wearing today. Here’s a picture of that. In this picture, I am clearly trying to guess the kind of bird that is on my shirt (while looking extra pasty from the flash).
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