Dress

Wedding dress

Wedding dress or wedding gown is the clothing worn by a bride during a wedding ceremony.    Color, style and ceremonial importance of the gown can depend on the religion and culture of the wedding participants. In Western cultures, brides often choose a white wedding dress. In eastern cultures, brides often choose red to symbolize auspiciousness.

Today brides use to wear different types of fashionable clothes in their wedding . According to 19th century, in eastern culture, brides choose red saree and  in western culture brides choose white gown.

According to Nepal, now theses day, brides often choose either red saree, lehenga, white gown if they are Christean or different type of dress they want to wear.

Weddings performed during and immediately following the middle age were often more than just a union between two people. They could be a union between two families, two businesses or even two countries. Many weddings were more a matter of politics than love, particularly among the nobility and the higher social classes.

 Brides were therefore expected to dress in a manner that cast their families in the most favorable light and befitted their social status, for they were not representing only themselves during the ceremony.

Brides from wealthy families often wore rich colors and exclusive fabrics.It was common to see them wearing bold colors and layers of furs, velvet and silk. Brides dressed in the height of current fashion, with the richest materials money could buy.

The poorest of brides wore their best church dress on their wedding day. The amount and the price of material a wedding dress contained was a reflection of the bride's social standing and indicated the extent of the family's wealth to wedding guests.

Lehenga dress

Lehenga or lehnga or Ghagra or Pavadai in Tamil or Langa in Telugu and Kannada is a form of ski which is long, embroidered and pleated. It is worn as the bottom portion of a Gangra Choli or Langa Voni. It is secured at the waist and leaves the lower back and midriff bare. In North India and Pakistan a lot of embroidery work is done on a lehenga and is popular during the festivals and weddings. 

The ghagri was a narrow skirt six feet long the same length as original antariya. This style can still be seen worn by Jain nuns in India.

In Andhra Pradesh it is called as Langa and part of the dress Langa Voni.

  Gown dress

A gown, from medieval Latin gunna, is a usually loose outer garment from knee- to full-length worn by men and women in Europe from the early Middle Ages to the 17th century, and continuing today in certain professions; later, gown was applied to any full-length woman's garment consisting of a bodice and attached skirt. A long, loosely-fitted gown called a Banyan was worn by men in the 18th century as an informal coat. The gowns worn today by academics, judges, and some clergy derive directly from the everyday garments worn by their medieval predecessors, formalized into a uniform in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.

In women's fashion, gown was used in English for any one-piece garment, but more often through the 18th century for an overgarment worn with a peticoat – called in French a robe. Compare this to the short gown or bedgown of the later 18th century.

Before the Victorian period, the word "dress" usually referred to a general overall mode of attire for either men or women, such as in the phrases "evening dress", "morning dress", "travelling dress", "full dress", "priest's gown" which are white, and so on, rather than to any specific garment, and the most often English word for a woman's skirted garment was gown.

By the early 20th century, both "gown" and "frock" were essentially synonymous with "dress", although gown was more often used for a formal, heavy or full-length garment and frock or dress for a lightweight, shorter, or informal one.

Only in the last few decades has "gown" lost its general meaning of a woman's garment in the United States in favor of "dress". Today, the usage is chiefly British, except in historical senses or in formal cases, such as evening gown and wedding gown. Formal gowns generally have a fitted bodice and a full-length full skirt.

Kurta Dress

The term kurta is a generic term used in South Asia for several forms of upper garments for men and women, with regional variations of form. The word "kurta" is a borrowing from Hindustan, and originally from Persian. We found differnt design of ladies kurta. It also named with different name like,panjabi kurta, kurta with leggings, anarkali kurta etc.Mostly panjabi kurta is wear by married women. Anarkali and kurta with legings wear by ladies.You can see right side pic,this is called anarkali kurta. Usually anarkali kurta is long.

                                                                                                                               pic:Anarkali kurta