A women’s group in Wellington recently got together to share their love for India’s favourite ethnic attire—saree. More than 50 women draped in an array of beautiful sarees gathered to celebrate the beauty of sarees.
The meet was a humble attempt to revive the charm of sarees by encouraging women to dress up in sarees and display the various types and traditional sarees of India, the work of the artisans and spend a nice evening networking with each other.
Saree is considered one of the oldest forms of clothing in the world and is traditionally worn by the women in the Indian sub-continent. It is an unstitched piece of fabric, measuring from about 4.5 metres to 8 metres and is rectangular.
Different regions of the sub-continent have their own speciality sarees, different weaves, different textiles and textures, varieties of silks and different ways of draping.
But due to their geographical location and call of the day, women living outside of the sub-continent hardly get any chance to wear sarees these days.
Apart from saree oriented fun games and yummy food, all the participants also narrated their saree story or the story about the saree they were wearing on the evening.
The meet was held under by a Facebook based group from Wellington Saree Shayari, which aims to promote weaving and draping and has over 10 thousand saree enthusiasts from across the world. This was the first meet of the group in New Zealand.
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