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WOMEN : Fashion
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Dress
The
Kerala women mostly dress themselves in those wonderful
six meters of silk or cotton called SARI. Teens used to
wear the dress called “Davani” in olden days,
but more convenient dresses like Churidar and Western fashion
styles are popular among today’s younger generation.
The men mostly subscribe to trousers and shirt like the
rest of the world. How ever you shouldn't be surprised
if you find them dressed in the traditional “Mundu
or "Kasavu Mundu" (a three to four meter long
cotton twin cloth with silk border) as formal dress and
a colorful cloth called "Kaily" or "Lunky" at
home as the informal dress.
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Mundu is more popular in the
rural areas. The typical style of a Malayalee is "Mundu",
top covered with a silk cloth called "Melmundu".
Keralaites used to wear wooden slippers called as "Methiyadi",
but that is no longer in use as rubber chapels take over
its role.
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Seematti
Textiles, Cochin, Kerala
Lady Bug, Cochin, Kerala
Kalyan Silks, Kerala
Dhanalakshmi– Kerala
Parthas Textiles Kerala
Kasavu Kada - Cochin, Kerala
Kitex Garments Ltd., Kerala, India
Thalachira Products, Kerala, India
V-Star Creations, Cochin, Kerala
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Jewellery |
Endowed
with physical beauty, and surrounded by a rich and bountiful
nature, the ancient Keralites paid little attention to
outward embellishments either in dress or jewellery. With
advancing civilization, changing fashions came to be introduced.
In Ancient Kerala, there were different types of ornaments
and different modes of wearing them: around the neck, on
the ear and wrist, around the waist and ankles of children.
Travancore (old name of southern Kerala) has a custom of
wearing ornaments on the crest of the head, the nose and
the upper ear lobe. It is said that everyone must wear
a bit of gold in account of its physiological values. Those
who couldn’t afford gold chose to wear silver.
Among other metals, copper is not generally used to create
ornaments except ‘rings’, but the alloys of
copper like Brones, Brass etc are used for making ornaments
like bangles. Iron is used to make rings which are fastened
around the ankles of new born babies. Pearl is also greatly
used jewellery, but was tabooed in ornaments to be worn
below the waist. Charms were made of seeds, nuts and stalks
of certain trees, nails, tigers, claws, teeth and hair
of elephants. These were used both as amulets and ornaments.
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