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  2. Sadri (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    The Khadi bandi is worn over a kurta and churidar. Jawaharlal Nehru, left, in a Bandi or Nehru vest, talking to Mahatma Gandhi, 1942. Sadri (Hindi: सदरी, Urdu: صدری), also known as a Waskat (Hindi: वास्कट, Urdu: واسکٹ) or Bandi (Hindi: बंडी, Urdu: بنڈی), is a vest-jacket worn by men in South Asia, while women sometimes wear a similar waistcoat known as ...

  3. List of garments having different names in American and ...

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    Short sleeve, legless, one piece infant garment with snap or other closure bodysuit [11] onesie, [12] bodysuit One-piece loungewear garment worn by children and adults onesie [12] one-piece, jumpsuit, long johns Long sleeve and long legs one-piece garment for babies worn as sleep and everyday wear babygrow, [13] sleepsuit, [14] babygro [13]

  4. Kurta - Wikipedia

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    According to Platt's A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English, 1884, online, updated 2015, [13] Persian کرته kurta , s.m. A shirt worn outside the drawers; a frock, a kind of tunic; a waistcoat or jacket. According to McGregor's Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary: [14] कुरता kurtā: (Persian. masculine), a collarless shirt

  5. Achkan - Wikipedia

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    An achkan (Hindi: अचकन, Urdu: اچکن), also known as baghal bandi, is a knee length jacket worn by men in the Indian subcontinent. It is a similar garment to the angarkha . History

  6. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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    Assembling a piece of fabric, or a garment, by stitching together smaller pieces of fabric into a single whole. Commonly used in quilting. [20] [21] piping Piping is a type of trim or embellishment consisting of a strip of folded fabric inserted into a seam to define the edges or style lines of a garment or other textile object.

  7. Dupatta - Wikipedia

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    Dancing woman wearing dupatta, detail from Kalpa Sutra manuscript, c.1300s. Early evidence of the dupatta can be traced to the Indus valley civilization, where the sculpture of a priest-king whose left shoulder is covered with some kind of a shawl-like scarf suggests that the use of the dupatta dates back to this early Indic culture.

  8. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    via Hindi dhotī (Hindi: धोती) ultimately from Sanskrit dhautī (Sanskrit: धौती) which means 'to wash', a traditional male garment used in India. Material tied around the waist that covers most of the legs. [35] Dinghy from Hindi दिन्गी dingi "a tiny boat", probably from Sanskrit द्रोण drona. [36] Dvandva

  9. Ghagra choli - Wikipedia

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    Luanchari (Hindi: लुआंचणी) is a full-dress garment. The luanchari is made up of two parts. The upper part is called choli, and is made of the same fabric as of the lehanga, but it is not uncommon to find the two pieces of the garment in different colours. The choli is stitched to the lehanga, to make a one-piece luanchari.