One thought on “Defining and re-​​defining ourselves, and each other, is what we do”

1. I usu­ally wear T-​​shirts (plain cot­ton) and shorts (hand-​​sewn). For dress-​​up, I wear sal­war kameez, which I sew for myself. Most com­fort­able cloth­ing going.

   I have two saris, which I bought because I sew and love fab­ric. One green silk, one a cot­ton Ben­gali tant with deep zari bor­ders. I thought that I would never dare wear them. Who wants to see a fat woman’s bare stom­ach? But I have a cun­ning plan! I’ve ordered an inex­pen­sive white cot­ton knit fig­ure hug­ging dress (short sleeve, scoop neck, ankle length) from Dharma Trad­ing Com­pany and I’m going to wear THAT under the sari instead of the usual choli-​​petticoat combination.

   I will report on the suc­cess of the exper­i­ment. I hope that it works, because I would love to see saris catch on as West­ern “dress-​​up,” much to the ben­e­fit of the strug­gling handweavers of India.

   Bill, do you think your wife would like a sari? Great ones on sale at sarisa​fari​.com Sur­prise her!

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