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Thus, we see that Indian men’s fashion experienced changes through the fusion of cultures. [18] Women's clothing and fashion were also influenced by the British. They did not wear fully western clothes like men, but many started to wear petticoats and certain blouse styles under their saris. [17]
Raiment was similar for both men and women, with variations in wearing style. The Vasas, or lower garment, and the adhivasas, or upper garment, were the most common clothes worn by Rigvedic Aryans.'Nivi' (undergarment) was used in the later periods. The people also wore Atka' (a garment) and Drapi (a cloak).
The cotton industry in ancient India was well developed, and several of the methods survive until today. Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian described Indian cotton as "a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep". [3] Indian cotton clothing was well adapted to the dry, hot summers of the subcontinent.
Relief depicting men wearing an antariya and an uttariya, 1st century CE. An uttariya (uttarīya) is a loose piece of upper body clothing with its origins in ancient India. It is a single piece of cloth that falls from the back of the neck to curl around both arms and could also drape the top half of the body.
It was a chest band used in ancient India. It was a simple upper garment of the females during the ancient time similar to the strophium or mamillare used by the Roman women. Stanapatta was a part of Poshaka (the women's attire). Kālidāsa mentions kurpasika, another form of breastband that is synonymized with uttarasanga and stanapatta by him.
Hindu deities can be seen wearing the uttariya and the antariya in sculptures in the Indian subcontinent, [6] especially in Hindu temples and other forms of iconography. As mentioned in Buddhist Pali literature during the 6th century BC, Sari śāṭikā ( Sanskrit : शाटिका ) is an evolved form of the antariya, which was one of ...
Draping and wrapping were the accustomed forms of ancient Indian clothing. Vedas describes contemporary clothes according to the use and style of wrapping. Uttariya refers to an upper-body garment, Adivasah as an over garment, and Vasa as a lower body garment. Hence Nivi could be categorized in Vasa, that was a simple rectangular piece of clothing.
The clothing of men and women at several social levels of Ancient Egypt are depicted in this tomb mural from the 15th century BC. The preservation of fabric fibers and leathers allows for insights into the attire of ancient societies. The clothing used in the ancient world reflects the technologies that these peoples mastered. In many cultures ...