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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 ...
In modern usage, a short kurta is referred to as the kurti, which is the attire of females. However, traditionally, the term kurti refers to waist coats, [1] jackets and blouses [2] which sit above the waist without side slits, and are believed to have descended from the tunic of the Shunga period (2nd century B.C.). [3]
The term vest derives from the French language veste "jacket, sport coat", the term for a vest-waistcoat in French today being gilet, the Italian language veste "robe, gown", and the Latin language vestis. [4] The term vest in European countries refers to the A-shirt, a type of athletic vest.
TikTok users are trying to help out a confused husband who is bewildered by one of his wife’s “weird” garments that has “no head hole.”
Banyan" is also commonly used in present-day Indian English and other countries in the Indian subcontinent to mean "vest" or "undershirt". Also called a morning gown , robe de chambre or nightgown , the banyan was a loose, T-shaped gown or kimono-like garment, made of cotton , linen , or silk and worn at home as a sort of dressing gown or ...
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Bill Clinton “Hillary and I mourn the passing of President Jimmy Carter and give thanks for his long, good life,” Clinton, the country's 42nd president, said in a statement on Sunday.
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2]