History of Blouse in India
03 Oct 2024
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Blouse, a word deeply associated with Indian Fashion, Culture & Lifestyle. And the fact amazes us the most, is the dress called blouse not even existed before a few centuries.
According to the Indian History, Ancient Indian Women did not use any dress to cover the upper body and the only dress was a piece of cloth wrapped around the body as Sari.
In the period from 2800BC to 1800BC, Indian Women dressed by 'Poshak', containing three separated parts, where a piece of cloth used to cover the shoulders and head, called 'Uttariya', the chest belt to knotted around the upper body, called 'Stana-patra' and lastly the longer piece of cloth to be wore from the waist below, called 'Antriya', reportedly during the Indus Valley Civilisation.
Though the middle part was there in the attire, women had mostly been ignored 'Stana-Patta' as history tells us. Later on, during the British Rule, blouse became a Regular Fashion Statement in India.
In the evolution of Modern Sari Blouse, a major part held by Late Gyanada Nandinee Devi (Jnanadanandini Debi), a feminist of Calcutta, was a revolutionary personality of Indian Fashion Culture.
As Gyanadanandini Devi, (wife of Satyendranath Tagore and Sister-in-law of Indian Noble Author Rabindranath Tagore) was rejected from joining a Club ran by British Rule because of her attire of covering bare-breast by the Sari Fabric wrapping around the upper body in a very elegant way, shecame up with the idea of covering the upper torso by the blouse and started engaging 'petticoat' as an under garment of saree to omit it's semi-transparent look.
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