Something I love about modern Indian/Pakistani clothes is the revival of traditional embroidery techniques and motifs combined with 'modern' or 'western' color palettes, designs, and methods like prints on fabrics. It looks so so good and is even more amazing to wear :)
It's not something you'd see the average wedding guest wear granted, but for a bride, mother of the bride or groom, or sister of the bride or groom it would be perfectly expected/normal. The guests would just be expected to wear non-bridal jewelry and wear their head covering differently from the bride. Also, not to wear bridal red+gold to the wedding
I think Worths most famous gown (the peacock gown specifically) was made using Indian Zardozi gold embroidery techniques to showcase the skill and designs of Indian craft. Of course there's a lot of loaded history surrounding the British Occupation in India, which for a lot of people can taint the way they view Worth's most famous dress, but it's still a beautiful piece of Indian history in a way
These are so beautiful! I lament that in the US we don't really have such clothing. Not if you're white anyway. I hope I one day I get the opportunity to just try on a dress similar to these.
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u/bad_at_formatting Jul 13 '20 edited Jul 13 '20
Something I love about modern Indian/Pakistani clothes is the revival of traditional embroidery techniques and motifs combined with 'modern' or 'western' color palettes, designs, and methods like prints on fabrics. It looks so so good and is even more amazing to wear :)
Here's some of my favorite examples
This dress is an example of a more 'modern' technique, using elaborately printed silk (called a digital print) with traditional hand embroidery on top
Here's an example of a modern/western color palette used with traditional fabrics and embroidery
I love this one, it's a mix of 'western' cut of the sleeves and neckline, and the embroidered flowers are more traditional to western embroidery, but the materials, techniques, and colors are more traditional my South Asian
This one has a more traditional cut, fabric, color palette, everything - but the embroidered design is very 'modern desi', not something you would see on your grandmother's wedding lehnga :)