Saturday 31 March 2012

A male attire??

Hi ,

     Sorry for not posting frequently. I was busy.

Big news this season. My girlfriend and I have finally decided to get engaged. Our families are deciding upon an auspicious date for the big day. Though our families knew about our relationship right from the beginning and were happy about it, right now I feel like we got the license to our relation.

Second big news: we moved to Pune. Had a hard time finding a nice quite place to live. Finally we got a nice little rented house in little colony. Kind of odd place to find two software engineers living. Seriously, none of our neighbors are well off. They are poor but are really good people. Plus all of them are Maharastrians;  which is an added perk giving my girlfriend and me a little more freedom coming to our choice of attire.

As I had said in one of my earlier posts , my girlfriends feels free to wear lungi blouse as long as there are no malayalis (guys) around and this was like the best place we could ever stay. Though there are malayalis in Pune, there are none in this locality. I had hit jackpot!!

She seemed to like the fact too; actually she pointed it out when we saw the place for the first time. First day there and she made my day. It was the best morning I ever had; I woke up to see her unpacking our luggage, after her bath ,wearing a lungi , blouse and a thorthu tied over her wet hair. Brilliant! I had to ask her, if she was going to make this her permanent attire in the house. You see, I had to ask.. Well she said no! but said to expect her in it more frequently. She didn't mind venturing out too in it. She was much less tensed than she was in Banglore. I love this girl. She even went shopping for vegetables in the market by the street.

I think lungi does suit for the climate here, Its is really hot. I can't wait to come home and change from my trousers to lungi and so does she. She either wears lungi blouse  or her nightie or my shirt and lungi. It seems she had quit wearing churidhars at home. Can't blame her. Anybody who has lived in this sort of climate will agree : the more airy the dress the better!

So here I got another topic for my blog : shirt and lungi. Is it a male only attire?? Girls can definitely wear it, given that they dont mind wearing a lungi. According to girlfriend , few of the girls in her hostel used to wear lungi shirt at night. But  that was about 8 years back when she was doing her 12 grade. Browsing the net, I found few photos of girls in lungi shirt, one of them even dating back to 1970s.

Lungi shirt will be the best way for a girl to get used to wearing lungi without getting ridiculed. Start wearing lungi with churidhar top or kamee; with Tshirts or with Kurtas. Its does look stylish and is definitely comfortable. With the summer sun burning down up on us, its a suggestion to girls: try out these and you'll find it much comfortable in the heat. Try it out as something you wear at home during summer. My girlfriend loves it; so you might too. It's just a matter of try it out.

An adv for Lungi featuring a girl in lungi shirt



Lungi Shirt does make her look cute


Wednesday 14 March 2012

Vidya Balan in Lungi 2

Hi all,
   Previously I had posted photos of Vidya Balan posing backless wearing a Lungi. I found more photos of her in Lungi and Mundu taken during the same photoshoot. I've been drooling over the photos and it has invited the wrath of my beautiful girlfriend. :-P

Vidya has done amazing job trying to bring back Lungi in to fashion. I think girls should copy the style. It looks hot at the same time can worn practically with a little bit of adjustments. Vidya has posed wearing lungi, mundu with shirts and vest and it looks incredibly hot. Though its a men's attire, she has made it look completely gorgeous. Brilliant!
Vidya in mundu

Vidya in Lungi

Vidya in mundu

Vidya in mundu

Vidya in Lungi

Vidya in Lungi

Though not the conventional style of lungi with blouse and thorthu (or without thorthu), this isn't bad at all. Once Lungi comes back into fashion; lungi alone, it is then just one step away from the traditional Lungi Blouse style. Girls should experiment with lungi along with other dresses. They are definitely the next big desi fashion.

Here are the photos. Please feel free to share your thoughts. Please comment.

Thursday 8 March 2012

Lungi Blouse : Sri Lankan style 2

Hi,

     Last week I stumbled upon few photos of some SriLankan actresses which were taken at the sets of some movie. They were dressed in the traditional SriLankan dress that is quite similar to our own Lungi and Blouse. As in my previous post, here too I want to stress the point that those girls were not ashamed or embarrassed to wear it. But in our country, girls are embarrassed to wear something very similar. I blame the movies. B-grade movies have given a really bad image to lungi blouse attire. Sad!

 And unlike in Kerala, I think in Sri Lanka, this dress is still accepted and worn by girls and women. That is something to be appreciated. One of my Sri Lankan friend said that even though they were all sorts of modern dresses, at home they dont mind wearing this. They have a different name for this attire; it escapes me right now. She said she and all her friends still wear this dress often. I can only hope our girls will ever develop such a mentality with lungi/mundu blouse.

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actresses in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actresses in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actresses in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse

Actress in Lungi Blouse
Here are the photos that I found. Feel free to comment and correct me if I have got some facts wrong.

Monday 5 March 2012

Vidya Balan in Lungi??

Vidya Balan posing in a Lungi for FHM
Hi all,

     I just happen to find a photo of Vidya Balan posing backless, covering her essentials with just a lungi. I don't expect women to wear a lungi like her ; it is impossible , impractical in real life. It looks good for a photoshoot though.

Taking her malayali lineage in to consideration, I should say she is not totally ignorant about mundu or lungi. It would have been great if she had worn it properly and preferably along with a blouse; even though we know years back women used to be topless in Kerala. Lets hope she wears it properly in future.

This photo hopefully wont damage the already bad image of our traditional dresses. New generation girls want to look hot and sexy, right? Well, it doesn't any hotter than this. Here's it, Vidya Balan in a Lungi.