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 It’s
time marriage season in Chennai and let’s unravel an upcoming trend of
clothing for the bride this season. Kancheevaram silk draped in gujarati
style is passé. Brides of today prefer lehanga choli (modified version
of ghagara choli) to look stunning on the most important day of their
life. The heroines of the eve accessorize their lehanga’s with imitation
yet heavily worked jewellery.
Lehanga choli was very popular among royal ladies of the Mughal times. At
that time it was considered as a dress that had the ability to bedeck
Indian beauty in the most modest manner. Using the basic embroidery
colors of red, black, green, yellow, white and orange and rendered with
cotton and silk threads lehanga-cholis have revived the old stitches and
elevated embroidery into a trend. It has a look of evening glamour.
The cost of heavily worked lehanga choli
could range from 10,000 to even more than a lakh. This ready
made attire takes lesser time for the bride to get dressed and
easier to carry off herself without signs of being
uncomfortable. The lehanga (the skrit) weighs more than three
k.gs yet looks ravishing that it can be borne.
 It
requires good knowledge of the material and the stones used in
the material before selecting the piece and it is preferable to
go to authentic places. In Chennai there is Anita’s boutique in
kilpauk, Gothewalas in R.K salai, Rangoli in Nungambakkam high
road and even SKC in T.nagar which offers a good range of
lehangas. The best part is that lehangas can be made to order.
One can raise a question of whether this
lehanga choli trend falls under the typical tamil tradition, but
all is fair in marriage for the bride. It is after all that day
which every girl looks forward too in her life.
Sowjanya.S
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