A Birthday Gift.

Hi there,

Tonight I am going to tell you about two of our friends . They were couples and dated for about 4 years. As usual I dont want to take names so lets call them Mr.G and Ms.A . They were very much in  love and we knew them for a long time. Even though they have split and are no longer in speaking terms with each other, they do keep in touch with Saranya and me.

Mr.G  like me love to see women in lungi blouse. He was quite secretive of it until he and Ms.A talked about it during one of our dinners together. Mr.G liked this attire and had spoken about his likeness to Ms.A during the initial part of their relationship. She never really liked it though. She believed it to be the attire of the low class ( even in today's society , some Menon families still believe that they are a superior caste. Trust me, I am a Menon and have seen some of my relatives behave so).

But she was supportive and did bring him magazines and pics of girls in lunig blouse when ever she found any. He had insisted her to wear it for him once when they were alone at his home. She said, she was shy but then she loved him so much that she finally agreed. She wore it for a brief time and posed for photos for him.

"The first time , I saw myself in the mirror (in lungi blouse) did the magic. There was no denying. The dress was so beautiful and sexy. ", she said showing us the photos in his mobile. She was wearing a red blouse and blue kalli mundu with a white thorthu.
Then few days later on his birthday, she got to his home and changed to lungi blouse to surprise him. He confessed that he never expected her to do that. It was his best birthday ever. There were photos of that day too. She had tried out differnt lungies and thorthu for the photos.

Happy days dont last long. The couples we expected to get married before we do got separated. They do visit us occasionally. They are among the few in front whom Saranya doesn't mind wearing lungi blouse.

Few days before we left Banglore, we visited Ms.A at her house. She was wearing a mundu and blouse that day. It was our turn to be surprised. She confessed that some times she wear lungi blouse or mundu blouse at home. Even though they had broke up , she never gave up wearing lungi/mundu.

They would have been beautiful couples. Shame they had to split up.
-RM

The Girl in Mundu Blouse

Hello Readers,

      Today was just a usual day like any other. Left early to office as there was some sort of procession due to which roads were to be blocked off by traffic police. Saranya decided to take the day off.

Returning home, I was surprised to see Saranya. Evidently she had found some malayali textile shop some where near and been out shopping. She wasn't dressed in the nightie that she was wearing in the morning; She wore a kavi mundu and blouse. I have seen her wear white (off-white/cream colored) mundu. I have seen her in lungi numerous time. But this was new! I dont wear kavi mundu at home, I prefer lungi. If its some auspicious occasion or special occasion , I wear normal white mundu. I have never seen her dad wear a kavi mundu too. So this was new to her.

She said , she was bored at home and went for out with plans to do little shopping. Luckily she decided to wear set-mundu this time around as she was planning to explore a bit ; she didnt want to end up seen, by some malayali, dressed in lungi blouse and thorthu. She spotted this malayali store few Kilometres from our nagar and decided to check it out. Among the other malayali stuff sold in that shop, she found lungi, kasavu mundu, kavi mundu and thorthu. She didnt waste time thinking and bought a kavi mundu and two lungis. She also bought three thorthu (these were colored and checked ones and the ones she usually use were the white ones).

So here she was wearing her new kavi mundu and blouse. She looked gorgeous as usual. Be it be lungi or mundu; when she is dressed in them she has this eternal beauty of a village damsel. "engane und?" (how is it?): she asked me with a smile . I am sure she knew my answer perfectly well.

Kavi mundu is the closest thing to lungi that a girl can wear without being stared at. It has got the ,well lets say 'standards' of normal mundu. Though colored it is not 'degraded' to a lungi status. "ithum blousum ittu nee aalkarude munbil varumo? atho lungi udukumbol ullapole malayalikale kandaal oodi olikumo?" ( Are you ready to face malayalis wearing this and blouse or are you gonna shy away like you do when you are wearing lungi?) ,I asked.
"emm...nokate. penkuttykal annengil eniku preshnamilla...anungal annengil chilappozhe patu...maarthu thorthillathe enthayalumilla..." (lets see. May be I will if its just girls ..not sure if Iwill do it in front of men..definitely not without a thorthu over my bosom). A fun evening. Took loads of photos (none will be shared here, sorry.).

Mundu Blouse : Simple, Elegant, Beautiful and Sexy

P.S:
 I am not the kind of guy who wants to show off his fiancee to others. I am not  a pervert. I dont mind her wearing lungi blouse and thorthu in front of others because it is just a dress like any other. It is not equivalent to exhibiting. 


 Please feel free to share your thoughts. Comment: appreciate or criticize; lets have a discussion. 

Monsoon and some rain drenched Memories.

Hello there,

It rained in Pune today. Haven't called home, so don't know if monsoon have officially hit Kerala yet. It was nice to have rain after a hot dry summer. Saranya and I enjoyed our little rainy evening today. We went for a walk in the light rain. Nature gets more beautiful when it rains.

Five years back in Banglore, it was a similar rainy evening when I saw Saranya in Lungi for the first time.She had just started her college and I had joined my first company. I had been to her apartment before that day, couple of times and had even stayed over night few times. I had left few of my dresses there just in case I had to stay there.That day it was raining cats and dogs and I had to go to her apartment as it was closer to my office. I knew that she used to wear mundu at times at home but that day she had chosen to wear one of my lungis (that I had left there) and a T-shirt. And she looked gorgeous. She had made that one of her usual home attire like her nighty.

The first time her parents saw her in lungi was also in Banglore. They had visited her for few days and she  wore lungi with her t-shirt at home. Her parents were cool about it . They were surprised but they didnt make a fuss about it. The same week ,after returning from lunch, one day, (I was present there too) she changed her saree and wore a lungi and thorthu over her blouse. I was surprised , flattered, shocked or what ever you could come up with. Her parents had seen her enough time in lungi- shirt/ Tshirt that week (and had seen my lungis with her clothes in her room) that they weren't surprised at all. They had guessed that she was using lungi in apartment by the clues they could gather.

Not bad huh?

Today , she confessed that she was a bit shy to wear lungi blouse and thorthu in front of her parents that day. But she wanted to and she did; after all its her parents : why be shy? She always thought Lungi blouse is the same as mundu blouse; lungi is just a colored mundu after all. Now she doesn't mind wearing it in presence of her parents , close relatives and friends. She is not comfortable weariing lungi blouse everywhere or infront of anybody. But she is completely comfortable to be seen in lungi-shirt or lungi-t-shirt by anyone.

Saranya wants me to add  that, she thinks lungi tshirt is the prefect dress that can be worn by girls who are shy to try out lungi blouse but would want to try it out some day. By wearing lungi tshirt , they can let people know that they use lungi and give a heads-up that 'hey, dont be surprised if you find me wearing lungi blouse.'

Feel free to share your thoughts!

Saranya's Vegetable Garden!

Summer heat is beating down hard here in Pune; it's unbearable. But nothing seems to keep Saranya from spending time out in the sun; She has made a little vegetable garden in our backyard. Even though she enjoys going out for buying vegetable (now that she can freely walk wearing Lungi blouse and thorthu) she likes to work with the soil; they have large farms in her native place and she grew up working when ever she could. So one fine evening , there it was: a vegetable garden in our backyard.

Though it started off as passion, the garden did make a good excuse for her to slip into lungi, even when there were guests. She simply gets a lungi and wraps it around over her nightie or what ever she is wearing at the time and moves out into the garden doing her stuff like watering the plants and so. She asked me to put this up because, she thinks that any girl who wants to wear lungi in front of others but is shy to do so can use this as a reason. Make a garden or do some thing that can spoil your dress; start wearing lungi as a protection to your dress over it; then slowly switch to lungi alone when you work in the garden.

Not a bad idea ,huh??

Few days back, one of my malayali friend and his wife dropped in at our place unexpectedly; and Saranya here was waltzing around in one of my lungi and her blouse. She was in the kitchen when I opened to door for them and I wasn't able to give her any sort of warning. My friend's wife walked straight into the kitchen and caught Saranya in lungi and blouse.Saranya was embarrassed but she handled the situation gracefully. She casually talked and walked past us into our bedroom and got a thorthu to cover her blouse. Then she acted completely normal and said that she was about to work on her garden and didn't wanted her dress to get dirty. And it seemed to me that my friend and his wife bought that excuse. She played it so well that, few minutes later my friend's wife was out with Saranya mending the plants with a lungi wrapped over her saree.

Looking Proud and Beautiful : Suganya in Mundu Blouse and Thorthu.

I must say that moving to Pune was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Saranya seems to have become much bolder and now wears lungi blouse more frequently than ever ; not just that, she seems okay wearing it out in the public too.

What I observed is that , shyness decreases the more you come out and once people get used to seeing you in certain attire, people wont care about it. So all you girls and ladies out there, who like to try out Lungi blouse, Do it! Let my darling Saranya be your inspiration.

Be proud to wear something that is uniquely Malayali.