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Alia attended the Ambani Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations on Monday wearing a floral sari by Manish Malhotra with big kundan earrings. She looked nice but can’t say I liked the sari. Did you?
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Alia Bhatt
Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani
I dont understand why bollywood stars are SO in capable of wearing a saree properly? Why is the saree never fully drapped across the chest? Why is one side always out? They always just tuck it right under to show the blouse. Ridiculous.
In this case the blouse is so ordinary that there is nothing worth showing.
And the drape was so sloppy she was tripping in it. A simple elegant drape and she would have looked 100 times more lovely.
Yes ,what’s with this one side drape..why just why??!! I seriously cannot put it behind and look at the saree.
I mean who would wear it like this IRL
Waiting for this horrible trend to pass. _/\_
Ms. Balan who sports varied saris (and how) never does this kind of drape manish or non-manish.
Genuinely asking out of curiosity, why is it so bad to wear saris draped on half the blouse? Both my mother and I wear them that way a lot of times because we find pulling the drape to cover most of the blouse to be too severe. And I don’t see anything wrong with modifying the drape to some degree to suit your preference.
The pallu falling down a bit naturally is fine as some people don’t like to pull it up too much. In this case it’s deliberately pulled down the breasts as you see in the picture. It falls closer to the base and the saree looked a bit crumpled at that point. It’s just weird. Does that explain?
I think the original reason why there would have been rules around dress in temples etc. would have been to ensure that the focus of the individual and others in the vicinity is fixed upon the spiritual as opposed to the material / physical. Clothing to be simple and non flashy, either by way of it being to sparse or too rich. This logic makes sense to me. However I’m sure like so many other cultural mores, the original intent of this norm too has become dissociated from the practice. And now it might in some cases be more about policing women.
Not a fan of the saree at all.
Am I the only one who thinks it inappropriate/disrespectful to wear sleeveless things to pujas/ religious function and celebrations?
You might not be the only one, but I would really hope that you are in the minority with that thought. Sure, religious institutions tend to follow such practices, but extending that to our daily life, to the extend of including sleeveless blouses as “disrespectful” is in my opinion frankly too much.
Agreed. ESP since our female deities are mostly wearing kachulis. So by divine inspiration sleeves is the way 😉
Lol
I’m sure that there is a tribe somewhere in the world that offers prayers to their respective Gods dressed in little to no clothes indigenous to dressing norms.
Closer home, Shiva pujas are often carried out by aghori sadhus buck naked.
Women put under scanners for disrespecting deities at religious occasions with their dressing is a societal, more specifically patriarchal, construct.
“Women put under scanners for disrespecting deities at religious occasions with their dressing is a societal, more specifically patriarchal, construct.”
???
I want to paint a million hoardings with this brilliant, accurate sentence & put them up outside every major temple/religious site around the world (especially in India but also elsewhere).
(ouch, those question marks were meant to be “applause” emojis)
Why, thank you! Will be happy to send you a mugshot to go with that brilliant quote of mine! 😉
Couldn’t agree more. Nobody would bat an eyelid if a man turned up in a sleeveless top or shorts at a temple. But if a woman were to do it, it’s considered inappropriate. If a woman is on her periods, she shouldn’t visit a temple. But how could the temple be built in the first place if there were no people, who were born only because a woman has periods!
Some sleeveless blouses are better than others. This one is pretty sparse.
The caveat though is that this is hardly a real religious event – there are thousands of under-dressed and in some cases, nonsensically-dressed Bollywood stars walking around so maybe it’s the expectation to dress like this here.
I think the original reason why there would have been rules around dress in temples etc. would have been to ensure that the focus of the individual and others in the vicinity is fixed upon the spiritual as opposed to the material / physical. Clothing to be simple and non flashy, either by way of it being to sparse or too rich. This logic makes sense to me. However I’m sure like so many other cultural mores, the original intent of this norm too has become dissociated from the practice. And now it might in some cases be more about policing women.
Wanted to love this but if only..
It’s very garish
What horrible material of the saree. Looks like some mithai box or fruit basket covering. And this sells under a designer name ! And moreover stars willingly wear it !
Terrible saree and terrible earrings. She looks nice, because she is pretty and thankfully the make up is not OTT.
Hate the earring equally! Too huge.
Those earrings weigh more than her and the drape is tacky as is the trend in Bollywood.meh!
I could not decide which is more tackier. Saree or its drape. Finally somehow I came to conclusion that drape is more tackier.
Ugly saree and that center part..arrgh. I wish I could crusade against that center parting + saree combo.
On a completely different note: On mobile, somehow the page#3 doesn’t show up below when you are on page #2. It directly shows page #4. I could be wrong…but I’ve noticed this a couple of times since you changed the website.
This has happened with me too & I also don’t see the “Next”
You will need to click the box with > to the next page when on Mobile. Similarly box with < to go to previous page. 🙂
You will need to click the box with > to the next page when on Mobile. Similarly box with < to go to previous page. 🙂
I thought it’s a Sabya
those earrings look so SILLY
Ambani’s and their events are nothing but a tackfest!
Yes, but somehow when I’m on page #1, I can see the tiny box with a 2 (3,4…6K something) in it so I can click on any page and go there directly. But the box number 3 doesn’t show up when I’m on page 2 but box numbered 4 does. I end up using the ‘>’ or ‘<' but was wondering why the number is skipped just for 3.
On a completely different note and not to plug but just out of sheer joy of sharing with fellow style savorers … The Sartorialist ( Scott what’s his last name?) is publishing sartorialist India soon. Can’t wait to see the creativity and style quotient for the mans and women outside of tinsel town.
Floral Mess. The trimmings are ugly and reminds one of their bed spread.
I may be in the minority but I think she looks adorable.
I hope those ear rings aren’t as heavy as they look. For that silly design of an ear ring that could never elevate a tacky saree such as this, it would be a crime to wear it if it’s heavy!
what a FUGLY saree!
This is how Manish Malhotra can take a handloom weave and make it horrendous… notice the tassels on the end, the garrish colors and the simply awful borders attached… Those earrings are beautiful but too overwhelmng for her petite face and frame… needed a smaller version of it to balance it out. she did not see comfortable with the drape…
Beutiful saree. Terrible drape.
Normal printed saari… ruined by that craft shop golden fringe lace, plus a bikini blouse.. no Alia, your fashion has become run of the (bolly) mill
manish and his ugly designs