Designer Indian Suits Biography
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Indian culture refers to the culture of the South Indian
states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala. South Indian
culture though with its visible differences forms an important part of the
Indian culture. The South Indian Culture is essentially the celebration of the
eternal universe through the celebration of the beauty of the body and
motherhood.It is exemplified through its dance, clothing, and sculptures.South
Indian women traditionally wear the sari while the men wear a type of sarong,
which could be either a white dhoti or a colourful lungi with typical batik
patterns. The sari, being an unstitched drape, enhances the shape of the wearer
while only partially covering the midriff. In Indian philosophy, the navel of
the Supreme Being is considered as the source of life and creativity. Hence by
tradition, the stomach and the navel is to be left unconcealed, though the
philosophy behind the costume has largely been forgotten.This makes the
realization of sharira-mandala, where in Angikam bhuvanam yasya (the body is
your world) unites with the shaarira-mandala (the whole universe), as expressed
in the Natyashastra. These principles of the sari, also hold for other forms of
drapes, like the lungi or mundu or anchey (a white lungi with colourful silk
borders in kannada) worn by men. The lungi is draped over clockwise or
counterclockwise and is tied at the back or fixed just along the waist line.
It's sometimes lifted till knee and tied at the waist leisurely or just held in
hand to speed up walking. In Andhra and in parts of north karnataka men wear
kachche panchey where it is tied at back by taking it between legs.Similar
pattern is seen in women. All over the peninsular coastal region men wear
coloured lungis and women wear sari in a way tying it at back.The Araimudi
(araimuti) was worn by young Tamil girls.
The Araimudi (araimuti) (Tamil: அரைமுடி, araimūḍi ?) is a small silver metal plate
shaped like a heart or a fig leaf formerly worn by young Tamil girls on their
genitals. "Arai" means loin and "mudi" means cover. The
araimudi is also known as the "Genital shield" and an araimudi was
mentioned in the "Guide to the principal exhibits in the Government
Museum, Pudukkottai", by M. S. Chandrasekhar, published in 1966 as being
displayed in an exhibit in the Madras Government Museum. "A Manual of the
Salem district in the presidency of Madras, Volume 1" said "The
children sometimes, to the age of ten years or more, go in a state of nudity,
relieved perhaps by a piece of string round the waist which sustains the
"araimudi" or heart-shaped piece of silver, which calls attention to
what it purports to conceal." The "Madras district gazetteers, Volume
1, Part 1" said 'Little girls, up to the age of about 3, wear nothing but
the little heart-shaped piece of silver suspended by a waist-cord (arai- mudi)
" which calls attention to what it purports to
conceal."'"Percival's Tamil-English dictionary", edited by P.
Percival defined Araimudi as "அரைமுடி
arai múḍi, A small plate of gold or silver, appended to the girdle of female
children, for the sake of decency". Miron Winslow's dictionary, "A
comprehensive Tamil and English Dictionary of High and Low Tamil" defined
araimudi as "அரைமுடி,
s. A small plate of metal worn by little girls over the private parts."
Abbe Dubois's book "Hindu manners, customs and ceremonies",
translated from French and edited by Henry Beauchamp stated that "Even the
private parts of the children have their own particular decorations. Little
girls wear a gold or silver shield or codpiece on which is graven some indecent
picture ; while a boy's ornament, also of gold or silver, is an exact copy of
that member which it is meant to decorate." "Description of the
character, manners, and customs of the people of India; and their institutions,
religious and civil", also written by Dubois said "The children of
either sex are likewise ornamented with various trinkets of the same form,
though smaller than those of grown persons. They have also some that are
peculiar. As all children in India go perfectly naked till they are six or
seven years old, the parents of course, adapt the ornaments to the natural
parts of the body. Thus, the girls have a plate of metal suspended so as to
conceal, in some measure, their nakedness. The boys, on the other hand, have
little bells hung round them, or some similar device of silver or gold,
attached to the little belt with which they are girt. Amongst the rest, a
particular trinket appears in front, bearing a resemblance to the sexual part
of the lad." Until the 1960s in the Ampara District of Sri Lanka girls
wore the Araimudi.
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