Designing of National Dress


 
 
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Designing of National Dress

Designing the National Dress

  • Indians began devising cultural symbols to express uniting of nation. In late 19th century, a kind of nationalist feeling swept across India. Artists and poets looked for national style of art and songs.
  • The Tagore family of Bengal experimented with designs for a national dress for both men and women. Rabindranath Tagore suggested that instead of combining Indian and European dress. India's national dress should have elements of Hindu and Muslim dress.
  • The chapkan (a long buttoned coat) was considered most suitable for men.
  • In late 1870s, Jnanadanandini Devi, wife of Satyendra Tagore, returned from Bombay to Calcutta and adopted Parsi style of wearing the sari pinned to left shoulder with a brooch, worn with blouse and shoes. This came to be known as Brahmika sari.
  • As nationalist feelings swept across India by the late 19th century, Indians began developing cultural symbols that would express the unity of the nation. Artists looked for a National Style of art, poets wrote National Songs, a debate began over the design of National Flag, an experiment started to search of a National Dress. This move was to define the cultural identity of the nation in a symbolic ways.

     
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