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Draping An Indian Sarees
Step 1. Around your body. Starting at the navel, tuck the plain end of the saree into the petticoat and continue tucking till you take a complete turn from right to left. Adjust the lower end of the saree to the height required. Ideally wear your footwear so that you drape the saree to the right length. Step 2. Measuring the pallu. Hold the top edge of the saree where the pallu is and bring it around your hips to the front and over your left shoulder, thus measuring the length of the pallav or pallu. The pallav should hang down the back to the knee. You may pin your pallav to your sari blouse provisionally. Step 3. Making pleats. Create pleats with the saree. Make about 7 to 10 pleats and hold them up together so that they fall straight and even. Tuck the pleats into the waist petticoat slightly to the left of the navel, taking care to see that the pleats are turned towards the left. Step 4. The pallu. The remaining portion of the saree must be turned once around the body and then draped over the left shoulder. Arrange the pleats on this part of the saree and then pin them up on the left shoulder to prevent the pallu from falling off. This is the most common method to wear a saree.Some Different styles of draping the sarees in different states:-
Gujarati Style The Gujarati style of wearing a saree requires the pallu to be draped in the front rather than over the shoulder. Sarees with eye-catching magnificent pallus are best worn in this style.
Bengali Style The Bengali style of wearing a saree has no pleats and is elegantly draped around the body and the pallu has a bunch of keys that falls over the shoulder.
Coorgi Style The Coorgi style of Karnataka of draping a saree involves tying the pleats in the rear instead of the front and a small portion of the pallu is placed over the shoulder.
Maharashtrian Nauvari Style The women of Maharashtra wear a nine-yard saree called Nauvari. It is worn like a dhoti at the bottom while the upper portion is worn like a normal saree with the pallu tucked in the waist.
Gond Style This style is found in many parts of Central India. The cloth is first draped over the left shoulder, then arranged to cover the body.
Nivi Style The Nivi style originated in Andhra Pradesh. But this is the style of sari draping which is extremely popular in India and is worn by a majority of Indian ladies.