Pre-dawn, comfortable, festive and still photo-ready The alarm goes off at four in the morning. It is dark, the house is quiet, the thali is sitting ready on the kitchen…
How to Pick a Dress That Honors Tradition AND Feels Like YOU It is a Thursday. You have a full workday ahead, your mother-in-law is eight thousand miles away, and…
A zip and go saree does one thing very well: it takes the six yards, the petticoat, the pleating and the pinning, and turns them into a single garment you…
The appeal of a blazer dress is simple: it is a complete outfit in one piece. No pairing, no deciding what goes with what, no second-guessing in front of the…
There is no single way to clean jewelry, and that is the most useful thing to know before you start. The method that brings a gold chain back to life…
Here is the thing most guides get wrong: how a saree looks on you has far less to do with your size than with how it is draped. The same…
The short answer: a suit jacket comes as one half of a matched suit, cut from the same fabric as its trousers. A blazer is a standalone jacket, worn with…
The Bengali drape, known as the atpoure style, is one of the most recognizable ways to wear a Bengali saree. Its defining feature is that there are no pleats at…
There is a reason certain clothes come out only a few times in a life. A saree kept folded in muslin for a daughter’s wedding. A red lehenga worn once…
Standing in front of a full wardrobe and feeling like nothing quite works is a familiar problem, and it usually has very little to do with size or trends. More…
A farshi shalwar is a wide-legged, floor-trailing garment worn with a kurta and dupatta, historically associated with the courts of Awadh in what is now Uttar Pradesh. It falls straight…
Not every saree gets worn as often as you hoped. Some come out once and then sit at the back of a shelf, while others get used again and again…