I have used the word 'we'', which means both genders, Male & female. Yes, our ancestors were wearing it all these centuries without any discrimination. Saree is for female and coat pant is for male was taught to us by Britishers especially after they imposed section 377.
British women were supposed to be fully covered, Head to toe. This rule, of course, had to be extended to the Indians who would drape the single piece of cloth called the Sari without any undergarments. Their bare shoulders, stomach, ankles, calves, and necks were blasphemy to the Victorian code of conduct.
We had 'Kenchuki" which was similar to Blouse but do you know a word in any Indian language similar to Petticoat?
The credit for introducing modern Nivi(Naveen) Drape goes to Jnanadanandini Tagore in 1860, wife of Satyendranath Tagore, Sister in law of Rabindra Tagore, who by extensive research and travel made sure to introduce a drape which was following Victorian Morality and Indian Culture. She was a Right-handed woman, so the drape is on the left shoulder.
Anupam S Shlok
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Additional - I have been an Indian Culture and theater student. Indian Ghunghat morality is simply undigestable to whoever has even a brief understanding of the History of Indian culture.
Lucky to find this thread this early morning, and thought to write about it. Generally, I only post original content but in the last couple of days, have come across two phenomenal subjects(Jagannath puri & Saree ) on Indian Culture and could not stop writing about them just to spread the knowledge to as many people possible.
Here is the original thread.
https://twitter.com/nikaytaa/status/1151340966831280128
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