Elegance and Sarees - My love for 9 yards of fabric.
I was in the eighth grade. In the same year, my cousin was getting married. Appa had decided to design a lehenga from a simple Ilkal saree for the occasion. He deconstructed the saree and put together a design and had it sewed by the tailor. He was known for a lot of tricks up his sleeve, and creating magic was one of them. The lehenga managed to set a trend at least in the closed circles. I fell in love with the idea of a saree here. For my graduation ceremony in my twelfth grade, he bought me my first silk bandhani saree in a lovely combination of cerulean and cobalt blue. 💙 This was complemented with raw silk, deep blue blouse. Teenage is confusing and there's an innate pressure to look good and feel beautiful. Draping this saree, I felt beautiful. It takes a lot to convince yourself at that age, one can thank emotions overpowering rationality,- YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL . Even the best of the best, fail at this. I fell in love with the idea of a saree again. You know the reaso...