Costumes of meghalaya

Costumes of meghalaya

1. HISTORY OF DESIGN & FASHION

2. COSTUMES OF MEGHALAYA

3. Megh – cloud, alaya- house. Situated north east part of India. Very beautiful state which has peaceful hills. Garos, khasi $ Jaintias –these are famous hill tribes of India. People of Meghalaya are known for their weaving skills. Meghalaya

4. The most skilled weavers of the region. Almost every family earn their live hood through weaving. GAROS

5. Costumes of Garos

6. Traditional Womens wear. Made with mulbery silk. Unstitched garment. Woven fabric. Wrapped around to cover the body. JAINSEN

7. Made with endi silk threads. Sonidan is the hub of “endi” in meghalaya. Produced with natural soothing shade creame, white, brown, beige and gold. Favorites of any fashion addict of india. Endi shawl

8. Endi shawl

9. Short piece of cloth “Eking”. Women drape it round the waist in remote areas of garo hill village. While men wear a “loincloth”. “Eking” $ “loincloth ”

10. Unstitched cloth. Hand woven. Has 6 to 10” wide beautiful border with diff. pattern $ motifs. In crowded area garos women wear it with blouse . Dakmanda

11. Costume of khasi

12. Used by khasi women. Made with cotton. Woven fabric. Upper part of her body is clad in a blouse. Over these she ties both of ends of a check cloth on one shoulder. Jainsem

13. Traditional former wear of women. Made with munga silk. Long piece of fabric. Hangs below the knees. Knotted or printed at the shoulder. Jympien

14. Head shawl. Worn by knotting both ends behind the neck. Tapmohkhlieh

15. Strip of cloth. Woven fabric. Used by senior women. Jainkup

16. Traditional costume of men is:- Unstitched Woven fabric Worn to cover lower part of body. But these days they have adopted western code of dressing. Men’s wear of khasi

17. Traditional men’s wear. Longish sleeveless coat without collar. Fastened by thongs in front. Jymphong

18. Costumes of Jaintias

19. Used by maidens and women. Check print cloth. Tied round the head during harvesting. Kyrshah

20. For formal occasion. Long velvet blouse. From shoulder to the ankles with the skirt. Wrapped round the waist. Thoh khyrwang

21. Women tribes embellish themselves with the:- Earrings Other ornament of pure silver $ gold. Silver circlet round the head for a fore head decoration. Ornaments

22. Pendent Made of 24 carot gold. Kynjri ksiar

23. String of thick red coral beads. Wears during festive occasion. Over round neck. palia

24. Wear by garos ladies. Which are thin fluted stems of glass strung by fine threads. Rigitok

25. Baskets accessories

26. Attractive motifs. Floral pattern. Flowers are used. Used for borders. Surface ornamentation . Motifs $ pattern

27. Red ,orange, white ,blue , creame $ black are mostly used. colors

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