Prepping For The Wedding Season

The wedding season has started in my family. Every year I look forward to such occasions even though it makes a big hole in my pocket.  A wedding season is nothing but a shopping season which I love.

If a wedding is performed in an old traditional fashion then we will need minimum 4 to 5 sarees. One would not just need sarees but would also need matching jewelry. I have been following a jewelry buying tradition for many years now. Whenever a wedding happens in my family I buy a piece of jewelry. This way I can I easily remember the year of purchase and calculate the ROI (Return On Investment) J

Even this year I wanted to buy some jewelry and I visited my trusted jeweler. I liked an enameled gold antique pendant. Once the price was calculated it was nowhere close to what I expected so I bought an other piece of jewelry for the marriage. I left the store with a heavy heart as I was not able to buy what I liked.

I liked the enameled jewelry so much that I started googling to see if similar pieces were available. I did not find a similar piece but found “Sayuri” in Chennai.  

Sayuri is owned by Divya who believes in creating contemporary and fashionable pieces by incorporating recycling and reusing. Her tagline is "Designed to please your soul".

Each and every peice is handcrafted by her. 

Divya creates jewelry based on different themes. Only after I met Divya I found that ragas were depicted in pictorial form in our ancient scriptures. Divya has created a range of jewelry based on ragas. Most of her Raga based jewelry has been sold out but it is worth seeing the pictures for visual treat.

Here is Ragamala by Sayuri.  Click on the link to read more.

Finally, the peice of jewelry Divya created for me. Radha madhav bib. I just love it because it is so unique:

Corporate Dress Code

Each organization defines their own dress code. Frankly speaking uniforms are the best. You need not worry on what has to be worn every day to work. I am not saying that it’s easy for men to choose what they want to wear but choosing what to wear for women is more complicated.

In most of the organization in Indian private sector, women population is roughly 10-15% when it comes to middle management and top management and the age group is 35+ years. When you fall in that group your dress code becomes very important. Among 20 colleagues only 1 or 2 would be women while attending any key meetings. Under these circumstances one should not look odd. The female dress should gel with the blues and greys and whites in the room. If you are a person like me who rarely wears western clothes, then you have to make your wisest choice.

In this post I am going to talk about saree as the choice of attire. I feel saree’s are more comfortable and the options are innumerable. For every day work, we can go for cotton ikkat’s, Bengal cotton, block prints, chettinad cotton, mangalagiri, Kanchi cotton, or Maheshwari.

For chettinad and mangala giri saree I usually do not go for plain blouses. I try to pair them with kantha work, block print or differently weaved ikkat blouses. But if we have to attend team meetings or conferences it is better to go for pastel shades and apart from cotton’s, Tussar/simple silks look great.  

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Though in the movie the actress has not potrayed  the role of a corporate person but the costume design can be effortlessly followed.  

Go back and watch the movie again to get more inspirations. If you have any questions on what was the type of saree worn, you can ping me and I will clarify :)

Initially, I was apprehensive to link this post to a movie but then I thought it was the right fit so why not. :D